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Annual Report on the Labour Force Survey 2015
Summary of the results
Summary of Average Results for 2015 (I Basic Tabulation) (PDF:143KB)
Summary of Average Results for 2015 (II Detailed Tabulation) (PDF:131KB)
Statistical tables
Notes to statistical tables (PDF:15KB)
The statistical tables are formatted on excel files.
I Basic Tabulation
II Detailed Tabulation
(Cross sectional tables, Whole Japan) | |
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Table II-B | Summary Table: Population aged 15 years old and over by labour force status, employed persons, unemployed persons and persons not in labour force (Excel:32KB) |
Table II-B-1 | Population aged 15 years old and over by labour force status, began work for the past year, changed jobs for the past year, reason for taking a non-regular employment, reason for seeking a job, reason for leaving the previous job, duration of unemployment, kind of job sought, whether wishing to work, reason not to seek a job and age (Excel:181KB) |
Table II-B-2 | Population aged 15 years old and over by labour force status, status in employment, type of employment, agri-/non-agriculture, reason for seeking a job, reason for leaving the previous job, kind of job sought, whether wishing to work, reason not to seek a job, age, education and relationship to the head of household (Excel:949KB) |
Table II-B-3 | Employed person by status in employment, type of employment, industry, occupation, age, marital status, type of household, relationship to the head of household, education and number of persons engaged in enterprise (Excel:309KB) |
Table II-B-4 | Employed person by type of household, relationship to the head of household, age, status in employment, type of employment, number of persons engaged in enterprise, industry, occupation, weekly hours of work, main activity, whether had a job, when left the previous job and reason for leaving the previous job (Excel:160KB) |
Table II-B-5 | Employed person (began work for the past year) by age, whether had a job, status in employment, type of employment and industry (Excel:100KB) |
Table II-B-6 | Employed person by weekly hours of work whether wishing to change or to have additional job, earned from job (annual), age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, education, status in employment, type of employment, number of persons engaged in enterprise and whether wishing to change work time (Excel:147KB) |
Table II-B-7 | Employed person by earned from job (annual), age, marital status, type of household, relationship to the head of household, weekly hours of work, reason for short-time working and whether wishing to change work time (Excel:287KB) |
Table II-B-8 | Employed person with previous job by type of household, relationship to the head of household, age, status in employment of the present job, type of employment of the present job, number of persons engaged in the present enterprise, when left the previous job, status in employment of the previous job, type of employment of the previous job, number of persons engaged in the previous enterprise and duration of leaving a job (Excel:190KB) |
Table II-B-9 | Employed person with previous job by type of household, relationship to the head of household, age, industry of the present job, occupation of the present job, when left the previous job, industry of the previous job, occupation of the previous job and duration of leaving a job (In the past 1 year) (Excel:170KB) |
Table II-B-10 | Employed person by age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, weekly hours of work, industry, occupation, status in employment, type of employment and number of persons engaged in enterprise (Excel:206KB) |
Table II-B-11 | Non-regular employee by type of household, relationship to the head of household, marital status, age, education, earned from job (annual), weekly hours of work, reason for short-time working, whether wishing to change work time, whether wishing to change or to have additional job, status in employment, number of persons engaged in enterprise, industry, occupation, reason for taking a non-regular employment, type of employment and whether had a job (Excel:6,932KB) Both sexes (Excel:2,223KB) Male (Excel:2,471KB) Female (Excel:2,306KB) |
Table II-B-12 | Unemployed person by method used to seek a job, reason for seeking a job, reason unable to take up a job, age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, kind of job sought, when sought a job or prepared to start a business and duration of unemployment (Excel:60KB) |
Table II-B-13 | Unemployed person by age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, kind of job sought, reason for seeking a job, when left the previous job, reason for leaving the previous job, reason unable to take up a job, duration of unemployment, when sought a job or prepared to start a business and preference for employment as primary or secondary activity (Excel:120KB) |
Table II-B-14 | Unemployed person by type of household, relationship to the head of household, education, age, duration of unemployment, industry of the previous job, occupation of the previous job, reason for seeking a job, reason for leaving the previous job and reason unable to take up a job (Excel:158KB) |
Table II-B-15 | Unemployed person by age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, education, marital status, primary method used to seek a job, duration of unemployment, when sought a job or prepared to start a business ,preference for employment as primary or secondary activity and kind of job sought (Excel:50KB) |
Table II-B-16 | Unemployment person by age, marital status, type of household, relationship to the head of household, status in employment of the previous job, type of employment of the previous job, number of persons engaged in the previous job, industry of the previous job and occupation of the previous job (Excel:68KB) |
Table II-B-17 | Unemployed person who left the previous job in the past 3 years by status in employment of the previous job, type of employment of the previous job, number of persons engaged in the previous job, reason for leaving the previous job, industry of the previous job, occupation of the previous job, duration of unemployment, primary method used to seek a job and age (Excel:115KB) |
Table II-B-18 | Not in labour force by whether had a job, whether wishing to work, when able to take a job, age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, education and kind of job wished to take (Excel:58KB) |
Table II-B-19 | Not in labour force who wishing to work by whether/when sought a job or prepared a business, age, type of household, relationship to the head of household, education, whether had a job and reason not to seek a job (Excel:214KB) |
Table II-B-20 | Not in labour force who wishing to work by kind of job wished to take, reason for not to seek a job, whether/when sought a job or prepared a business and when able to take a job (Excel:155KB) |
(Time series data of type of employment) | |
Notes to time series data of type of employment (PDF:85KB) | |
Table II-C-1 | Employee by type of employment (Yearly average) (Excel:54KB) |
Table II-C-2 | Employee by type of employment (Quarterly average) (Excel:84KB) |
Appendices
- Outline of the Labour Force Survey (PDF:138KB)
- Concepts and Definitions (PDF:178KB)
- Sampling Method, Estimation Method, and Sampling Errors of Estimates (PDF:186KB)
- Labour Force Survey Questionnaire (PDF:406KB)
- Instructions for Filling in the Questionnaire (PDF:423KB)
- English Translation of the Table Stubs (PDF:375KB)
- List of Publications on the Labour Force Survey and the Special Survey (PDF:134KB)
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