# Industrial and occupational characteristics that promote shift from non-regular to regular employment

Industries with a high ratio of shift from non-regular to regular employment include scientific research, professional and technical services, medical and welfare services, education and learning support, and construction, etc. Occupations (detailed categories) with a high ratio of shift include sales, nurses, automobile drivers, etc.

Industry of current job
Ratio of shift to regular employment from previous industry	Regrouped: construction	Regrouped: manufacturing	Regrouped: information and communications	Regrouped: transport and postal activities	Regrouped: wholesale and retail trade	Regrouped: finance and insurance	Regrouped: real estate and leasing of goods	Regrouped: scientific research, professional and technical services	Regrouped: accommodations, eating and drinking services	Regrouped: education and learning support
Industry of previous job	Construction	26.6	13.0	2.8	0.3	2.2	2.2	0.7	0.4	0.9	0.4	0.0
Manufacturing	22.7	1.9	9.3	0.3	1.8	2.3	0.5	0.2	0.5	0.6	0.1
Information and communications	19.6	1.1	2.8	6.0	0.4	1.5	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.4	0.6
Transport and postal activities	24.7	1.6	3.0	0.6	10.2	2.4	0.4	0.7	0.1	0.5	0.4
Wholesale and retail trade	19.2	1.1	2.5	0.6	0.9	5.7	0.9	0.3	0.4	0.8	0.4
Finance and insurance	18.2	0.9	1.4	0.4	0.6	2.9	4.4	1.1	0.8	0.1	0.3
Real estate and leasing of goods	24.2	1.0	3.4	0.4	2.2	3.2	1.3	2.1	1.9	0.4	0.5
Scientific research, professional and technical services	28.5	2.3	4.9	2.4	0.2	3.1	0.7	1.1	4.5	1.1	3.1
Accommodations, eating and drinking services	20.0	1.0	2.6	0.5	1.0	2.9	1.1	0.3	0.8	2.9	0.6
Education and learning support	26.9	0.3	2.0	1.0	0.7	2.1	0.4	0.1	1.9	0.2	13.1
Medical, health care and welfare	27.0	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.4	1.1	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.9

Ratio of shift to regular employment from previous occupation	Current occupation
Regrouped: Professional and engineering workers	Regrouped: clerical workers	Regrouped: sales workers	Regrouped: services	Regrouped: manufacturing process workers	Regrouped: transport and machine operation workers	Regrouped: construction and mining workers
Previous occupation	Professional and engineering workers	33.0	21.3	4.7	1.6	2.2	1.8	0.2	0.2
Clerical workers	20.2	2.2	11.4	2.2	2.1	1.2	0.3	0.2
Sales workers	22.0	2.3	4.4	6.7	4.0	2.2	0.6	0.5
Services	22.3	3.6	3.4	3.1	8.0	1.9	0.6	0.6
Production Process	22.3	1.3	2.2	1.6	3.4	9.1	1.1	1.5
Transportation and machine operation workers	34.0	0.2	1.8	1.4	1.4	3.6	20.2	1.2
Construction and mining workers	29.1	1.3	0.8	2.2	0.5	4.8	2.9	12.8

(Ratio of former non-regular employees who turn to regular employment after changing job (by detailed occupational category) and job separation rate)

Source: Compiled independently by the Office of Counselor for Labour Policy, MHLW, from questionnaire data of the “Basic Statistical Survey on Employment Structure” (2012) Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

(Note) Shows the rate of shift to regular employment by occupation (the ratio of regular employees of current employees who separated from job in the past 5 years) and job separation rate (the ratio of people who separated from job in the past 5 years of employees of each occupation).