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2019 Yearly Average Results (Detailed Tabulation)

Released on February 14, 2020

[Note]

• "Revision of the Labour Force Survey from January 2018"(PDF:114KB)
  To grasp the varied state of the employment and unemployment more precisely, the Statistics Bureau of Japan revised the Labour Force Survey by introducing new questionnaires and enhancing current statistical tables from January 2018.
  (on March 2, 2018)
• "2017 revision of benchmark population"
  Using the latest results of the Population Census as the base, the benchmark population for calculating the results of the Labour Force Survey is revised every five years.
  The revision to 2015 Census-based population estimates was held in January 2017 for Basic Tabulation, and in Jan.-Mar. 2017 for Detailed Tabulation.
  (on May 9, 2017)

Previously released information

Link to statistical tables & database (Whole Japan)

Link to historical data

Summary of the 2019 Average Results

  The number of the regular employee was 34.94 million, an increase of 180 thousand from the previous year.

  The number of the non-regular employee was 21.65 million, an increase of 450 thousand from the previous year.

Summary Tables

Summary Table Population of 15 years old and over by labour force status, employed persons, unemployed persons, persons not in labour force and labour underutilization (Excel:16KB)

Notes

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