«Statistical Table» Unincorporated Enterprise Survey(Structual survey) 2007 Yearly
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Notes on the Statistical Tables
- Total of itemized figures may not add up to totals because itemized figures are rounded to thousand.
- Figures on a year-on-year basis are calculated from figures rounded to thousand.
- "–" indicates that the figure can not be calculated, because data is not available or the denominator is "0". In the meantime, "0" indicates that the figure is less than half of the given unit due to its being rounded to thousand.
- Consumption tax charged on trading is included.
Explanation of Terms
1. Industrial classification
Industrial classifications are based on the Japan Standard Industrial Classification (revised in March 2002).
"Special intermediate groups of industries" are combined with the Japan Standard Industrial Classification (Major groups).
2. City groups
All cities are classified as follows.
Population figures used in the classification are based on the results of the 2000 Population Census.
- All cities
- Major cities
Ku - area of Tokyo, Sapporo, Sendai, Saitama, Chiba, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka.
- Medium cities
Cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants.(excl. major cities)
- Smal1 cities
Cities with less than l00,000 inhabitants.
- Towns and villages
3. Districts
Districts are classified as follows
- Hokkaido and Tohoku district
Hokkaido, and Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita,Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures.
- Kanto district
Tokyo metropolitan area, and Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures.
- Hokuriku district
Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures.
- Tokai district
Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi and Mie prefectures.
- Kinki district
Osaka, Kyoto, Shiga, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama prefectures.
- Chugoku and Shikoku district
Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi prefectures.
- Kyushu district
Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures.
- Okinawa district
Okinawa prefecture.
4. Sales
Sales accrue when, regardless of when payment was received, commodities or products, etc. were delivered or services provided.
Sales refers to net sales excluding sales allowances and returned goods from sales revenue.
A : Items calculated in sales
- Net proceeds after sales commission is subtracted, when sales of commodities, etc. are consigned to another party.
- Processing fee income, repair fee revenue, consignments in commission income accrued when sales are consigned.
- Indirect taxes, such as liquor tax on manufacturers and special rural consumption tax in wholesale and retail trade, eating and drinking places, and services.
- Installment payments accrued for installment sales.
- Sales prices of scrap products such as waste paper, empty bottles and empty boxes.
- Income from tips in wholesale, retail trade, eating and drinking places, and service businesses.
B : Items not calculated in sales
- Receipt of money for selling on credit or credit income.
- Sales accrued by sale of commodities etc. on behalf of other parties.
- Income by subsidiary business of business proprietor.
- Work income of business proprietor.
- Family work income, house rent, rentals, interest, dividend, earnings from property accrued by the sale of trade assets.
5. Purchases
Purchases are recorded as commodities or raw materials etc. are delivered, regardless of when payment is made. Purchases refers to net purchases excluding purchase discounts and returned goods from gross purchases.
6. Total operating expenses
A: The total operating expenses refers to the following costs involved in business activities.
Taxes and public impositions (excluding income tax and residence tax, etc.), cost of packing and freight, water, utility bills, transportation and communication expenses, advertising expenses, entertainment expenses, damage insurance premium, repairs, supplies expenses, welfare cost, salaries and wages, cost of subcontracted work, interest and discount expenses, depreciation, rents for land and dwelling, other rents, and miscellaneous expenses, etc.
B: Salaries and wages refers to wages paid to employees, and estimated material compensation, if provided.
Salaries paid to family workers are not included in salaries and wages.
C: Interest discount expenses refers to payable interest and discount charges on bills, etc.
7. Investment in plant and machinery
Investment in plant and machinery refers to outlay required to buy buildings with a useful life of a year or more, and costing more than 100,000 yen, (in the case of stores with sleeping quarters, excluding the dwelling section and buildings), appurtenances, vehicles, machinery, tools, equipment, and fittings, as well as the cost of any land purchased or land development. Outlay for second-hand goods is not included.
8. Persons engaged
- Family workers refers to the person(s) who makes living together with the business proprietor, and are engaged in the business.
- Regular employees
Regular employees refers to persons who were employed for no specified period or for a period exceeding one month, or persons who were employed for 18 days or more in November and December in the year of the survey.
- Part-timers and arubaito
Part-timers and arubaito refers to persons among "Regular employees" who are generally known as "Part-timers", "Arubaito," "Non-regular employees" or an equivalent title.
- Temporary employees
Temporary employees refers to persons employed for periods of less than one month or on a daily basis.
9. Number of total employees during one year and number of total retired employees during one year
This refers to the total number of "Regular employees" employed who were hired or resigned (retired) over the course of a year.
Regular employees refers to persons employed for no specified period, for a specified period exceeding one month, or for 18 days or more for two consecutive months.
10. When establishments opened
When establishments opened refers to the date business commenced at the place as of the date of the survey.
11. When current business commenced
When current business commenced refers to the date business as of the date of survey commenced.
12. Affiliations with a chain organization
Chain organization refers to a franchise or voluntary chain.

