5. Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics

Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
Basic Survey on Wage Structure (General statistical survey) Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Office, Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Clarify wage structure for regular employees in major industries, in terms of type of worker, type of occupation, sex, age, educational background, length of service and experience, etc.	Amounts of cash salary based on contract, overtime salary, annual bonuses, and other special salary; type of worker, type of occupation, position, sex, age educational background, length of service, starting salary of university graduates, etc.	Private establishments hiring 5 or more regular workers (establishments with 5 to 9 personnel are limited for companies with 5 to 9 of personnel) and public establishments hiring 10 or more regular workers	Annual	November (Starting salary) January (Prompt report by prefecture) February (Nationwide)
General Survey on Working Conditions (General statistical survey) Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Office, Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Conduct Comprehensive Survey on wage systems, working hour systems, labour costs, welfare facilities and systems, retirement allowance systems and compulsory retirement systems at enterprises	Items relating to working hour systems, compulsory retirement systems, etc.	Private enterprises of the 15 major industries with 30 or more regular workers	Annual	October
Survey on Wage Increase (General statistical survey) Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Office, Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Grasping the revision amount of the wage and bonus, the rate of the revision, the method of revision of wage an bonus, and circumstances of the revision	Revised amount of average wage per worker, revision rate, method of revision, environment surrounding revision, effects of revision on business management, etc.	Private companies in 15 major industries with 100 or more regular employees (manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade with 30 or more regular employees)	Annual	November
Survey on Industrial Accidents (General statistical survey)	Investigate the occurrence of industrial accidents biannually and annually in the major industries	Extended and actual working hours, number of deaths and injured persons and number of delayed and closed days by the degree of disability due to industrial accidents	(Survey on establishments) Establishments of major industries with 10 or more regular employees (10-29 regular employees in specified eight manufacturing industries) (Survey on general construction businesses) which pay ¥1.6 million of premium for workmen's accident compensation sites whose contract price exceeds ¥190 million)	(Survey on establishments) Annual	(Survey on establishments) • Office of 100 regular employees or more: May • Office of 10 regular employees or more: November (Survey on general construction businesses) May
Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Office, Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Identifying actual situations of safety and health management, industrial accident prevention activities, and implementation status of safety and health education, etc. and workers' awareness of industrial accident prevention, etc. to be used as basic materials for promoting industrial safety and health administration in the future.	(Survey on establishments) Matters concerning enterprises and establishments, matters concerning industrial accidents, matters concerning safety and health management systems, matters concerning measures for reducing risks/hazards (risk assessment), matters concerning safety and health education, matters concerning mental health measures, matters concerning measures against passive smoking, matters concerning non-regular worker measures, status of utilization of external experts, etc. in industrial safety and health activities, matters concerning industrial accident prevention measures for elderly workers, matters concerning back injury prevention measures, matters concerning heat stroke prevention measures (Survey on workers) Matters concerning the attributes, etc. of workers, matters concerning safety and health awareness, matters concerning near-miss experiences, matters concerning work status, matters concerning general health examinations, matters concerning smoking	(Survey on establishments) Private establishments with 10 or more regular workers in agriculture, forestry (limited to forestry), mining and quarrying of stone and gravel, construction, manufacturing, electricity, gas, heat supply, water, information and communications, transport, postal, wholesale, retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, goods rental and leasing, scientific research, professional and technical services, accommodations, eating and drinking services, living-related and personal services, amusement services, education, learning support, medical health care, welfare, compound services, and service (not elsewhere classified) industries	Every five years The most recent survey was conducted in 2013	September
Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Office, Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Identifying actual situations of safety and health management, industrial accident prevention activities, and implementation status of safety and health education, etc. and workers' awareness of industrial accident prevention, etc. to be used as basic materials for promoting industrial safety and health administration in the future.	(Survey on workers) Matters concerning the attributes, etc. of workers, matters concerning safety and health awareness, matters concerning near-miss experiences, matters concerning work status, matters concerning general health examinations, matters concerning smoking	(Survey on workers) Workers employed at the above establishments	(Survey on workers) Workers employed at the above establishments	September