News Bulletin June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

No.308

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) conducts various statistical surveys with taking utmost care in preventing the COVID-19 infection.

2020 Population Census
  This is the year of the Population Census, which is conducted every five years, and the SBJ and local governments are preparing for its implementation.
  We plan to conduct the Census this autumn in a form where contact between surveyed household members and enumerators will be reduced as much as possible in order to prevent the occurrence and spread of COVID-19 and to ensure the safety and assurance of citizens and the enumerators.
  For more details, please visit
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/info/covid-19/kokusei2020.html
Labour Force Survey, Family Income and Expenditure Survey, Retail Price Survey
The SBJ conducts the Labour Force Survey, the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, and the Retail Price Survey every month by the internet and other methods, while taking utmost care in preventing the COVID-19 infection.
For more details, please visit
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/info/covid-19/index.html
Economic Conditions Survey, Unincorporated Enterprise Survey, Survey of Research and Development
The SBJ conducts the Economic Conditions Survey, the Unincorporated Enterprise Survey, and the Survey of Research and Development every year targeting enterprises, etc., while taking utmost care in preventing the COVID-19 infection and making more than enough consideration for the situation which the target entities are put in.
For more details, please visit
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/info/covid-19/keizai.html

- As of December 1, 2019 (Final estimates)

The total population was 126,144 thousand, a decrease of 291 thousand (0.23 %) from the previous year.
The population under 15 years old was 15,174 thousand, a decrease of 213 thousand (1.38 %) from the previous year.
The population aged 15 to 64 was 75,046 thousand, a decrease of 391 thousand (0.52 %) from the previous year.
The population aged 65 and over was 35,924 thousand, an increase of 313 thousand (0.88 %) from the previous year.

Japanese population was 123,646 thousand, a decrease of 499 thousand (0.40 %) from the previous year.

The total population was 125.90 million, a decrease of 0.29 million (0.23 %) from the previous year.

May 22, 2020

The consumer price index for Japan in April 2020 was 101.9 (2015=100), up 0.1 % over the year before seasonal adjustment, and down 0.2 % from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis.

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/index.html

May 28, 2020

The number of internal migrants (All nationalities) was 764,186, a decrease of 2,835 (0.4 %) from the previous year.
The number of inter-prefectural migrants (All nationalities) was 388,084, a decrease of 32,264 (7.7 %) from the previous year.
The number of intra-prefectural migrants (All nationalities) was 376,102, an increase of 29,429 (8.5 %) from the previous year.
The number of internal migrants (Japanese) was 703,617, a decrease of 1,565 (0.2 %) from the previous year.
The number of inter-prefectural migrants (Japanese) was 355,922, a decrease of 30,201 (7.8 %) from the previous year.
The number of intra-prefectural migrants (Japanese) was 347,695, an increase of 28,636 (9.0 %) from the previous year.

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/idou/3.html

May 29, 2020

The number of employed persons in April 2020 was 66.28 million, a decrease of 800 thousand from the previous year.
The number of unemployed persons in April 2020 was 1.89 million, an increase of 130 thousand from the previous year.
The unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 2.6%.

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/results/month/index.html

Monthly sales: 35.2 trillion yen, down 7.9 % over the year.
Number of persons working at the location of establishment: 30.15 million persons, the same level as the previous year.

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/mssi/kekka.html

The consumer price index for Ku-area of Tokyo in May 2020 (preliminary) was 102.0 (2015=100), up 0.4 % over the year before seasonal adjustment, and up 0.1 % from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis.

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/1581-t.html

June 5, 2020

Expenditures for Two-or-more-person Households
The average of monthly consumption expenditures per household for April 2020 was 267,922 yen, down 11.0 % in nominal terms and down 11.1 % in real terms from the previous year.
Income and Expenditures for Workers? Households
The average of monthly income per household stood at 531,017 yen, up 1.0 % in nominal terms and up 0.9 % in real terms from the previous year.
The average of consumption expenditures per household was 303,621 yen, down 9.9 % in nominal terms and down 10.0 % in real terms from the previous year.

- Change over the year of Monthly Expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet

Average expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet was 14,622 yen (up 5.9 % in nominal terms).

Food: up 66.5 % in nominal terms
Home electronics: up 86.4 % in nominal terms
Insurance: up 65.5 % in nominal terms
Medical care: up 41.4 % in nominal terms

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/joukyou/12.html