Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
Survey on LabourEnvironment (General statistical survey)	Investigate the effects on workers of the increase of dangerous and harmful operations, changes in working procedure and environment, in order to carry out more effective safety and health measures such as creation of comfortable working environment	(Survey on establishments) Items regarding establishments, items regarding working environment, items regarding working environment of hazardous operations, etc. (Survey on employees) Items regarding worker's attributes, items regarding working environment items regarding hazardous operations, items regarding organic solvent, etc. (Survey on tunnel and subway construction sites) Items regarding construction sites, items regarding working environment at construction sites, items regarding measures against dust	(Survey on establishments) Establishments with 10 or more regular employees in the industries including mining, manufacturing, transport (limited to land transport), services (limited to automobile repairing, machine and furniture repairing) (Survey on employees) Site workers employed at the above establishments (Survey on tunnel and subway construction sites) Construction companies (limited to tunnel and subway constructions) which pay roughly ¥1.6 million premium of workmen's accident compensation insurance, or whose contract price for the construction site exceeds ¥190 million	Every five years (The most recent survey was conducted in 2006)	September
Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Office, Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	Reference data used to settle labour disputes	[1] Survey on wages (wage structure, contents of allowances, wage increase and distribution, wage level by age group, etc.) [2] Survey on retirement allowance, pension, and retirement system (contents of retirement allowance and pension system, actual provision, and retirement allowance level by age group) [3] Survey on working hours, holiday, and vacation (annual scheduled working hours, annual working days, annual holidays, reduction of annual scheduled working hours, paid annual leave, special holiday, flextime system, etc.)	Enterprises selected by the secretariat of the Central Labour Relations Commission for the settlement of labour disputes from among those which have capital exceeding ¥500 million and 1,000 or more employees	Annual for [1] Every two years for [2] and [3]	Immediately after compilation (January for prompt survey report, next April for survey results)
Comprehensive Survey on Wages	Investigate wages and wage revision of workers at small-and medium-sized enterprises or establishments to obtain basic information for deliberations to fix or revise minimum wages at both Central and Local Minimum Wages Councils	Percentage of establishments which revised wages by the extent of wage increase, average wage revision rate, wage increase rate of ordinary workers and part-timers	For survey on wage revision, targets are establishments with less than 30 workers in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, lodging, restaurant services, medical care and welfare, academic research, professional or technical services, services related to daily life, entertainment, and other services (that cannot be classified otherwise) (For basic survey on minimum wages, establishment size in manufacturing was changed to less than 100 workers, and in information-communication industry, establishments engaged in newspaper and publishing with less than 100 workers were added)	Annual	In and after July Published as reference materials for Minimum Wage Councils
Fact-finding Survey on Minimum Wages (General statistical survey)	Investigate wages and wage revision of workers at small-and medium-sized enterprises or establishments to obtain basic information for deliberations to fix or revise minimum wages at both Central and Local Minimum Wages Councils	Percentage of establishments which revised wages by the extent of wage increase, average wage revision rate, wage increase rate of ordinary workers and part-timers	For survey on wage revision, targets are establishments with less than 30 workers in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, lodging, restaurant services, medical care and welfare, academic research, professional or technical services, services related to daily life, entertainment, and other services (that cannot be classified otherwise) (For basic survey on minimum wages, establishment size in manufacturing was changed to less than 100 workers, and in information-communication industry, establishments engaged in newspaper and publishing with less than 100 workers were added)	Annual	In and after July Published as reference materials for Minimum Wage Councils
Working Conditions Policy Division, Labour Standards Bureau	Investigate every March how many students receive informal job offers among graduating students at universities, junior colleges, technical colleges, and vocational schools to gather information useful to appropriately respond employment issues	·Population of students subject to the survey at surveyed school·No. of surveyed students at surveyed school (no. of samples)·What courses the surveyed students want·Majors of job seeking students·When the students received informal job offers	6,250 students selected by a fixed method from among graduating students at universities (62 universities, among which 21 national universities, 3 public universities, 38 private universities), junior colleges (20), technical colleges (10), and vocational schools (20), selected from among all universities, colleges, and schools nationwide by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare with consideration given to school's administrative body and location	Quarterly	·Early November For October Survey·Early January for December Survey·Early March for February Survey·Early May for April Survey
Survey on Potential Recruits Among Graduating Students at Universities, Junior Colleges, Technical Colleges, and Vocational Schools (General statistical survey)	Investigate every March how many students receive informal job offers among graduating students at universities, junior colleges, technical colleges, and vocational schools to gather information useful to appropriately respond employment issues	·Population of students subject to the survey at surveyed school·No. of surveyed students at surveyed school (no. of samples)·What courses the surveyed students want·Majors of job seeking students·When the students received informal job offers	6,250 students selected by a fixed method from among graduating students at universities (62 universities, among which 21 national universities, 3 public universities, 38 private universities), junior colleges (20), technical colleges (10), and vocational schools (20), selected from among all universities, colleges, and schools nationwide by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare with consideration given to school's administrative body and location	October, December, February, April	·Early November For October Survey·Early January for December Survey·Early March for February Survey·Early May for April Survey
Office of Employment Measures for Youth, Policy Planning Division, Labour Standards Bureau	Collect data on the actual situations of wages in contracted construction businesses, in order to obtain basic information for revision of the existing labour cost rate which are used to calculate workers' compensation insurance	Contract amount, insurance cost, amount of wages paid, etc	Construction businesses	Every three years in principle	Published as reference materials for Division of Workers' Compensation Insurance, Committee of Labour Conditions, Labour Policy Council
Survey on Labour Cost Rate (General statistical survey)	Collect data on the actual situations of wages in contracted construction businesses, in order to obtain basic information for revision of the existing labour cost rate which are used to calculate workers' compensation insurance	Contract amount, insurance cost, amount of wages paid, etc	Construction businesses	Every three years in principle	Published as reference materials for Division of Workers' Compensation Insurance, Committee of Labour Conditions, Labour Policy Council
Workers' Compensation Administration Division, Worker's Compensation Department, Labour Standards Bureau	Collect data on the actual situations of wages in contracted construction businesses, in order to obtain basic information for revision of the existing labour cost rate which are used to calculate workers' compensation insurance	Contract amount, insurance cost, amount of wages paid, etc	Construction businesses	Every three years in principle	Published as reference materials for Division of Workers' Compensation Insurance, Committee of Labour Conditions, Labour Policy Council