Outline of town people questionnaire result

Mid-term outline of what has been discussed within the government office to the present, town problems, tasks, the future image of the town, what the towns and residents should cooperate with for realization, opinions on the direction of town planning by region It was done for the purpose of grasping.

• Distribution and collection method: postal distribution, postal collection
• Number of distribution: 1,200 (randomly extracted according to age composition ratio for each 10-year-old class from the age of 20 in statistical method in December 2000)
• Collection number · Recovery rate: 532 cases (44.3%): It was a high recovery rate as a distribution method by mailing and collection method.

• 自然環境

"There are beautiful mountain shapes and natural landscapes" (222, 63.4%), "There is a quiet environment blessed with nature" (171, 48.9%), "Changes in the four seasons are clear" (152 , 43.4%) was positive.
Meanwhile, there was a negative opinion that "Increase in villa architecture and increase in wasteland is seen" (132 cases, 37.7%). (Especially it was many in over 40s)

• industry

"The image of the town name is often well-known" (177, 56.9%) was characteristic.
On the other hand, there were many negative opinions on commercials such as "There is no vibrancy in shopping districts" (202 cases, 65.0%) and "no gift items" (136 cases, 43.7%).

• Life · History

There were many opinions on places with poor quality of life such as "Public transportation (bus and JR) was inadequate" (164 cases, 46.7%), "medical outflow / medical institution shortage" (156 cases, 44.4%) .
Moreover, there were many opinions that "There is history (opening of Arishima farm)" (114 cases, 32.5%). (Especially it was many in over 60 years old)

• People · Community

There were many opinions on individualist tendencies such as "There is no conspicuous individual consciousness in the whole town" (142 cases, 34.1%) and "administrative advice" (101 cases, 24.3%).
On the other hand, there was an opinion that "the consciousness of the townspeople trying to improve this town is high" (95, 22.8%). (Especially in 20's, 30's it was a lot)
There were also many opinions that "There are many out-of-town migrants" (88, 21.2%), there was also an opinion that "collapse of communities by new residents" (45, 10.8%).

• Niseko's future image

The most common opinion was "the city where elderly people and young people can continue to live" (179 cases, 33.6%), followed by "the fused city of agriculture and tourism" (140 cases, 26.3%), "Attractive" countryside "(130 cases, 24.4%) has become.
In my 20s, there were many opinions on aggressive city planning, "the city where agriculture and tourism merged" and "the city with a beautiful landscape in the future" continued.
There were many opinions on the environment where I live as "a town where I can continue living" and "an attractive" countryside "in my 30s or over.

• Feedback that I read Niseko in the future

There were many positive opinions that "good", "wonderful", "it would be ideal".
On the other hand, it is realized that "it is very difficult to make it run", "what is the financial and economic burden that supports it?", "Ideal is too high and not realistic", "every effort is necessary to become it" Many opinions were also directed towards.

• Community development activities

It is a high evaluation by "to strengthen and enhance the function of the office," 37.2%), "to cultivate the community (connection of people and people)" (37.0%), and "cooperate" (23.7%) was slightly low.

• Living & Environment

"Creating a new lifestyle that will protect and nurture the environment of Niseko" (44.7%) and "For safe living" (41.7%) were highly evaluated.

• 教育

"School education" and "social education" (43.0% and 40.6% respectively) were highly evaluated.

• industry

"Aiming for healthy Niseko agriculture" (51.9%) was highly evaluated, "aiming for a lively shopping street where people gather" (44.9%), "aiming for a unique tourist area" (41.4%) Continued, the order of agriculture, commerce, sightseeing became order.

• Health and welfare

(45.3%), "I can live while feeling my health every day" (45.1%), "I am energetic" (48.3%), "a town where I can spend peace of mind" The town where elderly people live "(43.2%) and the keyword" relieved "became important.
In addition, it was about one in three people to evaluate "a town connected by a heart that supports each other", "a town where everyone exchanges and supports each other without distinction".

• Overall plan by field

Opinions that items such as "important items are important" can not be superior or inferior, "should not consider thinking by category, comprehensively think about the connection beside the division," should not think only by field , Opinions on the educational side, such as "We should volunteer in school education, we should aim for healthy education for young people" were conspicuous.

"Residentialization of young people and the elderly" (314 cases, 59.0%), "cooperation among industries" (224 cases, 42.1%, especially high in their 50s), "Landscape conservation and creation of nature and town" (217 Cases, 40.8%, especially high in 20's).

• Fields that we believe are particularly necessary for the government and the residents to cooperate in the future

There were many cases in "field of health and welfare" (260 cases, 48.9%) and "field of living environment" 252 cases (47.4%).

• Volunteer activities, things you are working on with friends

"Feeding service to elderly people living alone", "Garbage spreading", "Let's read stories to children", "Shishikawa Rivernet", "Flower", "Volunteer at specialty Niseko Heights", "Forest Volunteer "," Food Production by Local Agricultural Products "," Making Oshima "," Environmental Education "," Constellation Association ", etc. (Description formula)

• Efforts that the government and residents think that they can not go forward in cooperation

The "garbage problem" was the most numerous, and there were many opinions such as "education", "maintenance and protection of the natural environment", "welfare for the elderly", "agriculture" etc etc. (Descriptive expression) 3) About the problems etc. of the districts living

• Creating districts that I think are particularly important in the area where I live

"Creating districts that are vibrant in agriculture, commerce, tourism and other industries" (30.3%), "Building districts with enhanced lifestyle convenience" (27.8%), "Building districts where people and the community are valued" (21.1% It was in order.
When the districts are divided into 4 areas as follows, the total is calculated in each area. In "City", "District Creation of Highly Convenient Lifestyle", Rural Area, "Eastern Area", "Northern Area", "Southwestern Area ", The proportion of" creating districts that are vibrant in industries such as agriculture, commerce, and tourism "has increased.

• What kind of district would be desirable

"There are beautiful natural landscapes" (139, 26.1%), "Improvement of medical institutions" (117 cases, 22.0%), "Quiet environment (151 cases, 28.4% There are "(116, 21.8%) in this order. 4) Maintain and improve the quality of administrative services such as medical, welfare and education

• About future administrative services

"We will try to provide appropriate services such as reviews of service contents" (117 cases, 22.0%), "to improve the efficiency of administrative services through wide-area cooperation" (94 cases, 17.7%), "active introduction of private vitality (63, 11.8%), "We will work on partnership with townspeople" (9.8%).
In particular, in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, there were many answers to the way of thinking in the form of preventing both an increase in residents' burden and a decline in administrative services.
On the other hand, when it comes to the age of 60 years or more, the item of "There is unavoidable increase in residents burden to maintain and improve service level", "If the residents' burden is similar to the present level, service degradation is unavoidable" There were a lot of responses to thinking that inevitable the burden or the decline of service is inevitable.