Abstract
Currently, the decrease in population and the aging have become important problem in Japan. The purpose of this study is analyzing quality of life in the marginal local community, considering free answer. The data of the questionnaire survey in Nanmoku-Mura Gunma was used for all analysis. Nanmoku-Mura is one of the typical marginal local communities. This study aims to discuss the characteristics and analysis method of free answers in questionnaire survey in comparison with pre-code data and free answers, by one of the language processing techniques for text data acquired from free answers. We clarified that the quality of life and residential attitude are composed of individual attributes and district characteristics.
