Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
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 and 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 on industrial accident prevention, etc. to contribute to industrial safety and health administration in the future.	(Survey on business offices) Matters concerning business offices, matters concerning industrial safety and health management system, matters concerning safety and health activities, and matters concerning industrial accidents, etc. (Survey on workers) Matters concerning attributes of workers, matters concerning industrial accident prevention, matters concerning near-miss experiences and countermeasures, etc.	(Survey on business offices) Privately-owned business office with 10 or more regular workers in construction, manufacturing, electricity/gas/heat/water supply, information and communications (limited to communications, video picture, sound information, character information production, and distribution), transport, postal activities, wholesale, retail trade, real estate, goods rental and leasing (limited to goods rental and leasing), scientific research, professional and technical services (limited to commodity inspection and non-destructive testing services), accommodations, eating and drinking services (excluding Drinking houses, beer hall, bars, cabarets, and night club, laundry/beauty/bath services (excluding miscellaneous public bathhouses and laundry, beauty and bath services, n.e.c.) of living-related and personal services and amusement services, travel agency, services for amusement and hobbies, compound services (limited to postal services), and waste disposal business, automobile maintenance services, machine, etc. repair services, employment and worker dispatching services, and miscellaneous business services of services, n.e.c. (Survey on workers) Workers employed at the above business offices	Every five years (The most recent survey was conducted in 2010)	September
Basic Survey on Industrial Safety and Health (General statistical survey) (Topics are altered every 5 years)	Identifying actual situations of safety and health management, industrial accident prevention activities, and implementation status of safety and health education, etc. and workers' awareness on industrial accident prevention, etc. to contribute to industrial safety and health administration in the future.
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 on industrial accident prevention, etc. to contribute to industrial safety and health administration in the future.