### 2. Place of birth and place of present residence

The distribution of residential region by birth region shows that the percentages of respondents living in the same regional blocks as blocks where they were born are the highest among respondents born in the Tokyo area (90.4%) and the Chukyo area (89.9%).

Table III-1 Distribution of residential region by birth region (%)

Birth Region	Total	Residential Region
Hokkaido	Tohoku	Kita-Kanto	Tokyo Area	Chubu/ Hokuriku	Chukyo Area	Osaka Area	Keihan Suburb	Chugoku	Shikoku	Kyushu/ Okinawa	Total
Hokkaido	1,310	81.1	0.7	0.9	11.2	2.2	1.8	0.6	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.0	100
Tohoku	1,407	2.0	58.0	3.7	30.4	2.4	1.1	1.1	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.6	100
Kita Kanto	1,675	0.2	0.1	81.3	15.1	1.0	0.8	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.4	100
Tokyo Area	5,337	0.4	0.1	2.7	90.4	1.7	1.3	1.5	0.4	0.6	0.1	0.9	100
Chubu/ Hokuriku	3,626	0.2	0.0	1.1	11.7	81.6	2.9	1.4	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.2	100
Chukyo Area	2,680	0.0	0.0	0.3	5.0	1.5	89.9	1.5	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.8	100
Osaka Area	3,461	0.1	0.0	0.1	5.9	1.3	2.4	79.9	6.8	1.4	0.5	1.5	100
Keihan Suburb	822	0.0	0.1	0.0	4.1	0.9	1.9	10.9	80.4	0.9	0.0	0.7	100
Chugoku	2,037	0.1	0.1	0.1	6.8	0.7	1.9	7.0	0.7	79.7	0.6	2.1	100
Shikoku	995	0.0	0.1	0.4	6.4	0.8	1.8	9.8	1.2	2.6	75.8	1.0	100
Kyushu/ Okinawa	3,895	0.2	0.0	0.4	8.1	0.9	2.6	4.2	0.7	1.7	0.3	80.8	100
Abroad	316	7.9	0.3	4.1	35.4	8.5	7.9	8.9	1.9	7.9	0.9	16.1	100
Total	27,561	4.2	3.1	6.0	25.7	12.0	10.6	12.7	3.7	6.7	2.9	12.4	100

Excludes people whose birth region is unknown. People who were living in the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima at the time of the survey are not included. However, people who were born in the three prefectures, but were living in a place other than those three prefectures at the time of the survey are included.

The distribution of birth region by residential region indicates that the percentages of respondents whose residential region and birth region are in the same regional block are highest in Shikoku (93.0%) and Kyushu/Okinawa (92.1%) and lowest in the Keihan suburb (64.6%) and the Tokyo area (68.1%).

Table III-2 Distribution of birth region by residential region (%)

Residential Region	Total	Birth Region
Hokkaido	Tohoku	Kita-Kanto	Tokyo Area	Chubu/ Hokuriku	Chukyo Area	Osaka Area	Keihan Suburb	Chugoku	Shikoku	Kyushu/ Okinawa	Abroad	Total
Hokkaido	1,162	91.5	2.4	0.3	1.7	0.8	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.6	2.2	100
Tohoku	842	1.1	96.9	0.2	0.8	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	100
Kita-Kanto	1,660	0.7	3.1	82.0	8.7	2.5	0.5	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.0	0.8	100
Tokyo Area	7,080	2.1	6.0	3.6	68.1	6.0	1.9	2.9	0.5	1.9	0.9	4.5	1.6	100
Chubu/ Hokuriku	3,301	0.9	1.0	0.5	2.7	89.6	1.2	1.3	0.2	0.5	0.2	1.0	0.8	100
Chukyo Area	2,918	0.8	0.5	0.5	2.3	3.6	82.5	2.9	0.5	1.3	0.6	3.5	0.9	100
Osaka Area	3,491	0.2	0.5	0.3	2.3	1.5	1.1	79.2	2.6	4.1	2.8	4.7	0.8	100
Keihan Suburb	1,023	0.0	0.4	0.5	2.2	1.3	1.9	23.1	64.6	1.5	1.2	2.8	0.6	100
Chugoku	1,859	0.2	0.2	0.2	1.7	0.7	0.4	2.7	0.4	87.4	1.4	3.6	1.3	100
Shikoku	811	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.5	0.1	0.4	2.1	0.0	1.6	93.0	1.5	0.4	100
Kyushu/ Okinawa	3,414	0.4	0.3	0.2	1.3	0.3	0.6	1.5	0.2	1.3	0.3	92.1	1.5	100
Total	27,561	4.8	5.1	6.1	19.4	13.2	9.7	12.6	3.0	7.4	3.6	14.1	1.1	100

Excludes people whose birth region is unknown. People who were living in the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima at the time of the survey are not included. However, people who were born in the three prefectures, but were living in a place other than those three prefectures at the time of the survey are included.