抄録
It is often the case that the measurement of social capital is dependent on aggregating the individual answers to the questions asking individual perception of trust, collective efficacy, and the degree of social participation. It is, however, reported that the answers to these questions are correlated with the respondents' attributes. This paper investigates the extent to which the difference of the answer can be ascribed to regional-level variations. Data for the analysis is based on 10,448 people over 65 years old living in 199 rural settlements in Chita peninsula. The results showed that significant regional difference in the answers to the questions of collective efficacy, and the degree of social participation remain after the adjustments of individual attributes such as age, sex, equivalised income, educational attainment, and marital status.
