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	About one year later 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
Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau	Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau	Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau	Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau	Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau	Environmental Health Division, Health Service Bureau

4. Employment Statistics

Name of Survey	Objectives	Contents	Target	Frequency	Time of Release
Monthly Labour Survey (Fundamental statistical 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
National Survey
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	Final 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)	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
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	Irregularity	(Establishment Survey) December 2011 (Employee Survey) Scheduled for August 2012
Survey on Employment Structure (General statistical survey)	The survey aims to contribute to the formulation of future measures for part-time workers, including revision of laws, by clarifying the actual situation with the employment management of part-time workers, such as comparing the treatment of both regular and part-time workers after the revision of the Part-Time Workers Act in 2007, and through identifying the present situation with the employment management of both regular and part-time workers at the establishments and the actual situation with the work styles of part-time workers	(Establishment Survey) Attributes of the establishments, number of workers by type, situation with employment management, measures taken to promote the transition to being regular workers, clear indication of working conditions, implementation status of improvement measures after enforcement of the revised Part-Time Workers Act and the content, status with the employment management of part-time workers with the same job descriptions as regular workers, and status with employment management of part-time workers who are the equivalent of regular workers, etc.	(Establishment Survey) 16 major industries based on the Japan Standard Industrial Classification (November 2007 Rev.), private establishments with 5 or more regular workers	Irregularity	(Establishment Survey) December 2011 (Employee Survey) Scheduled for August 2012
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 employment management of part-time workers, such as comparing the treatment of both regular and part-time workers at the establishments and the actual situation with the work styles of part-time workers	(Establishment Survey) Attributes of the individuals, actual situation with the work of part-time workers, work conditions of part-time workers, and part-time workers' way of thinking about their work, etc.	(Employee Survey) Part-time workers working at the establishments surveyed above	Quarterly	Early March, June, September, December
Employment, Wage and Labour Welfare Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat	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, working hours, excess and deficiency of workers, employment adjustment	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