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)
National Survey	Clarify changes on national level in employment, earnings and hours worked at establishments with 5 or more regular employees	Earnings, hours worked, No. 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 the next month after the survey month
Final Report: Two months after the survey month
Prefectural 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	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	Earnings, hours worked, No. of regular employees, length of service	16 major industries, establishments with 1-4 employees	Annual	December
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Investigate attributes of workers that have entered or left the labour force, conditions related to entering and leaving the labour force, and recruitment at establishments within principal industries, etc. in order to obtain information on labour force mobility and status with unfulfilled job openings, etc.	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)	Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	This survey aims to contribute to the preparation of measures that can be used to appropriately respond to various issues arising from the worker dispatch system, etc. by identifying the actual conditions of dispatch workers, etc. from both the sides of establishments and the dispatched workers themselves and also enabling changes in the actual conditions before and after revision of the Worker Dispatch Act and the financial crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman to be identified.	(Survey on establishments)
Attributes of the establishments, main reasons for employing dispatched workers, main reasons for not accepting dispatched workers, duties of dispatched workers, number of worker dispatch contracts (by worker dispatch period and total dispatch period), changes in the number of dispatched workers from 3 years ago, number of responsible persons acting for client establishments, implementation status and contents of educational training/ability development over the last year, existence of mid-term termination of dispatched workers contracts and reasons over the last year, complaints from dispatch workers over the last year, matters concerning system for promoting dispatched workers to regular employee status, matters concerning employment placement dispatching, matters concerning contract workers, and future policies on the percentage of employment types
(Survey on dispatched workers)
Attributes of the individuals, conditions of dispatch work in the past, conditions of dispatch work at present, requests made to dispatch business operators and client establishments, matters concerning employment placement dispatching, and wishes for future employment status	(Survey on establishments)
16 major industries based on the Japan Standard Industrial Classification (November 2007 Rev.), establishments with 5 or more regular workers
(Survey on dispatched workers)
Dispatched workers work at the above business establishments	Irregularity	Scheduled for August 2013
Survey on Employment Structure (General statistical survey)	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 on dispatched workers)
Attributes of the individuals, conditions of dispatch work in the past, conditions of dispatch work at present, requests made to dispatch business operators and client establishments, matters concerning employment placement dispatching, and wishes for future employment status	(Survey on dispatched workers)
Attributes of the individuals, conditions of dispatch work in the past, conditions of dispatch work at present, requests made to dispatch business operators and client establishments, matters concerning employment placement dispatching, and wishes for future employment status	(Survey on dispatched workers)
Attributes of the individuals, conditions of dispatch work in the past, conditions of dispatch work at present, requests made to dispatch business operators and client establishments, matters concerning employment placement dispatching, and wishes for future employment status