Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
Survey on Economic Conditions in Health Care (Survey on Health Insurers) (General statistical survey) Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Medical Economics Division, Health Insurance Bureau)	Correctly perceive the financial condition of medical insurance insurers and prepare basic information on social insurance medical fees	Correctly perceive the financial condition of medical insurance insurers and prepare basic information on social insurance medical fees	All health insurance societies and mutual aid societies nationwide	Every two years The most recent survey was conducted in 2011	Late October
Patient's Behavior Survey (General statistical survey)	Survey patients who are users of medical institutions nationwide on the situations of medical care rendered and their satisfaction levels with care they received to identify patients' perception of medical services and their behaviors and thus obtain basic information for future medical administration	Reasons why they chose the hospital, information source when selecting the hospital, wishes with future treatment/medical care, waiting time and duration of treatment or consultation, second opinions, the amount charged by the hospital and the sense of burden, quality of medical care provider's explanations, satisfaction level, etc.	Patients who used general hospitals nationwide (Approx. 500 facilities)	Every three years The most recent survey was conducted in 2011	Late September
Health Statistics Office, Vital, Health and Social Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Investigate performance, and economic and social conditions of businesses related to environmental health to get basic information for preparing management guidelines indicating approaches necessary for sound management	Matters related to status of stores, management conditions, employees, facilities, equipment, managers' responsibilities	Matters related to status of stores, management conditions, employees, facilities, equipment, managers' responsibilities	Annual	Approximately one year after the survey
Survey on Businesses related to Environmental Health	Investigate performance, and economic and social conditions of businesses related to environmental health to get basic information for preparing management guidelines indicating approaches necessary for sound management	Matters related to status of stores, management conditions, employees, facilities, equipment, managers' responsibilities	Matters related to status of stores, management conditions, employees, facilities, equipment, managers' responsibilities	Annual	Approximately one year after the survey
Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau	Investigate performance, and economic and social conditions of businesses related to environmental health to get basic information for preparing management guidelines indicating approaches necessary for sound management	Matters related to status of stores, management conditions, employees, facilities, equipment, managers' responsibilities	Matters related to status of stores, management conditions, employees, facilities, equipment, managers' responsibilities	Annual	Approximately one year after the survey

4. Employment Statistics

Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
Monthly Labour Survey (Fundamental statistical survey)	Clarify changes on national level in employment, earnings and hours worked at establishments with 5 or more regular employees	Earnings, hours worked, number of regular employees, types of regular employees	16 major industries according to the Japan Standard Industrial Classification (JSIC) (revised in November 2007), establishments of 5 or more employees	Monthly	Provisional Report: The end of the following month to the beginning of two months after the survey month
National Survey	Clarify changes on prefectural level in employment, earnings and hours worked at establishments with 5 or more regular employees	Same as the national survey	Same as the national survey	Same as the national survey	Final Report: The middle of two months after the survey month
Prefectural Survey	Clarify changes in employment, earnings and hours worked at small establishments with 1-4 regular employees	Earnings, hours worked, number of regular employees, duration of service	16 major industries, establishments with 1-4 employees	Annual	Provisional Report: Two months after the survey month
Special Survey	Clarify changes in employment, earnings and hours worked at small establishments with 1-4 regular employees	Same as the national survey	Same as the national survey	Same as the national survey	Provisional Report: Two months after the survey month
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Aimed at investigating the status of entering and leaving the labour force and unfulfilled job openings within principal industries and the individual attributes and conditions of entering and leaving the labour force of workers that have entered or left the labour force, etc. to clarify the actual situations of labour force mobility between industries, different size businesses, occupations, and regions.	Establishments: Mobility of regular employees, unfilled job openings Hired employees: How they entered, whether they had previous jobs or not, how long they left the labour force, wage fluctuation Separated employees: Occupation, length of service, reasons for leaving	16 major industries according to JSIC (revised in November 2007), establishments with 5 or more employees, and workers entered and left the labour force at the establishments surveyed during the survey year	Biannually	August for annual results December for the first half-year results
Survey on Employment Trends (General statistical survey)	Aimed at contributing to the formation of measures that appropriately respond to various issues concerning employment of young people through identification of the actual condition of employment of young people from both sides of establishments and employees, including the employment situations of young workers at establishments and young people's awareness of employment issues, etc.	(Survey on establishments) Attributes of establishments, the number of employees for each employment type (regular employees, non-regular employees) (young employees), employment of young employees over the last year, systems implemented or planned to be implemented (under discussion) for employing young people, changes in the retention status of young employees, measures for retention of young employees, level of employment period expected for young employees (new school graduates, mid-career recruits), non-regular employees), development of skills of young employees, promoting non-regular to regular employee status, casual workers, requests to schools and government, etc.	(Survey on establishments) 16 major industries based on the Japan Standard Industrial Classification (November 2007 Rev.), establishments with five or more regular employees (Survey of individuals) Young workers employed at the above business establishments	Irregularity	Scheduled for August 2014
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	(Survey of individuals) Individual attributes, reasons for working, improvement/acquisition of vocational abilities, qualifications/licenses, current employment status, future work lives, desire for future employment, past employment, items regarded as important when selecting companies to be employed by for the first time, opinions as reference when selecting companies to be employed by for the first time, efficacy of vocational guidance at schools, status of continued employment at companies employed by for the first time, occupational category at companies employed by for the first time, reasons for leaving companies employed by for the first time, level of employment period at companies employed by for the first time, the number of companies employed by to date, status of utilization of experiences in job-change