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 covering all industries	Annual	December
[2] Status Survey on Labour Unions	Get a clear picture of labour-management relations including actual situation of labour unions, group negotiations, labour disputes, communications between labour and management, labour union activities, and contents of labour agreements (surveys are conducted on five themes in rotation for five years)	(2012 Survey: Survey on Collective Bargainings and Labour Disputes) Matters concerning collective bargaining, matters concerning labour disputes, matters concerning methods of resolving various labour-management issues, understanding of labour-management relations, etc.	Local unions (labour unions that are not federations) of private establishments in 16 major industries with 30 or more members	Annual	June
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Investigate labour dispute situation in Japan	Total number of workers involved in disputes, duration of action by type of action participated in by members, number of members that participated in actions, and number of non-work days	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
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	Annual	Scheduled for July
Basic Survey of Gender Equality in Employment Management (name changed from "Basic Survey on Employment Management of Women" in 2007) (General statistical survey)	Equal Employment Policy Division, Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau	(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	(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
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

### 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)