Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
Survey on Labour Economy Trend (General statistical survey)	Study the influence of business trends and changes in the labour market on employment, working hours and wages, and understand business prospects and measures responding to such influence	Trends in output, sales, employment, and working hours, number of regular workers, excess and deficiency of workers, number of unfulfilled job openings, employment adjustment, etc.	12 major industries according to the Japan Standard Industry Classification (revised in November 2007), private establishments with 30 or more regular employees	Quarterly	Early March, June, September, December
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Investigating the number of all labour unions throughout the country and their members and affiliation unions, to identify actual conditions of organization of labour unions, such as the distribution of industry distinction, area distinction, and affiliation with upper-part unions	Type of labour union, applicable laws and ordinances, number of labour union members, status of affiliation with upper-part unions	All labour unions nationwide	Annual	December
[1] Basic Survey on Labour Unions	Clarify the actual situations of labour-management relations, including the actual situations of organizations and activities of labour unions, the status of collective bargaining, conclusion of labour contracts, and labour disputes, and the status of labour-management communications, etc.	(2013 Survey: Survey on Status of Labour Union Activities) Awareness of labour-management relations, officials of labour unions, finances of labour unions, workers other than regular employees, efforts on individual labour issues, existence of workers/labour union members for each employment style, existence of eligibility for participation in the labour union, organizational expansion of labour unions, mental health, revision of wages/retirement benefits system, matters concerning organizational restructuring of enterprises	Local unions (labour unions that are not federations) of private establishments in 16 major industries with 30 or more members	Annual	June
[2] Status Survey on Labour Unions	Investigate labour dispute situation in Japan	Total number of participants in disputes, duration of action by type of action participated in by members, number of members that participated in actions, and number of working days lost	All disputes	Monthly	August
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Obtain basic information for carrying out measures for home work	Consignment conditions, etc. from consignors Working conditions, etc. of home-workers Actual situations of working at home, etc.	Extracted in certain methods from consignors, home-workers and order placing and accepting entities of in-home works	Every three years The most recent survey was conducted in 2011	Scheduled for March of the survey fiscal year
Fact-finding Survey on Home Work (General statistical survey)	Part-time Work and Home Work Division, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau	Study the actual situations of employment management related to equal employment issues between men and women in major industries	Matters concerning employment conditions such as acceptance and placement of females by enterprises in accordance with the Equal Employment Opportunity Act and status of provision/operation of child care/family care leave system, etc.	Private establishments with 10 or more regular workers, engaged in the 16 major industries	Scheduled for July
Part-time Work and Home Work Division, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau	Equal Employment Policy Division, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau	Collect data separately between permanent employees and non-permanent employees on human resources development of enterprises, places of business and workers in order to improve human resources development measures	(Survey on enterprises) Company profile, expenses for OFF-JT and self-development support (Survey on establishments) Profile of establishment, implementation of education and training, human resource development, career building support, inheritance of skills (Survey on individual workers) Workers' attributes, participation in education and training, participation in self-development, working life planning	Private establishments with 30 or more regular workers, engaged in the 15 major industries defined in the Japan Standard Industry Classification (Survey on establishments) Private establishments with 30 or more regular workers, engaged in the 15 major industries defined in the Japan Standard Industry Classification (Survey on individual workers) Workers employed at the establishments which are the targets of the survey on establishments	Scheduled for March
Basic Survey of Human Resources Development (General statistical survey)	General Affairs Division, Human Resource Development Bureau	Collect data separately between permanent employees and non-permanent employees on human resources development of enterprises, places of business and workers in order to improve human resources development measures	(Survey on enterprises) Private enterprises with single or main establishment with 30 or more regular workers, engaged in the 15 major industries defined in the Japan Standard Industry Classification (Survey on establishments) Private establishments with 30 or more regular workers, engaged in the 15 major industries defined in the Japan Standard Industry Classification (Survey on individual workers) Workers employed at the establishments which are the targets of the survey on establishments	Annual	Scheduled for March