Housewive’s Life and Reading in Danchi (Houses belonging to Housing Public Corporation)

—the field survey of dwellers in Danchi—

Abstract

Taking consideration of the fact that the dwellers, especially housewives in Danchi formed a new social group which grew up rapidly after war and a important reading population and the users of a library. The purpose of this Survey is to make clear the real state of housewives' life and reading in Danchi. Housewives in Danchi are relatively young (26-30 years), have a high educational career and time to spare. But they are not remarkable about the concerning of reading, compared with the concern about mass-media, in addition contents of reading are related to house life. But their volition to read is strong, the chief reason why they don't use a library is that they have little time to read, there is no library at hand and yet filled the volition to read with borrowing them from neighbourings. On this point it seems that they become good users of library.