News Bulletin April 30, 2021
April 30, 2021
No.318
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
The Fiscal 2021 Budget for the Statistics Bureau and the Director-General for Policy Planning (Statistical Standards) of Japan Approved
The Japanese government's budget for the fiscal year 2021 was passed by the Diet on March 26, 2021. The nation's budget for general account spending is approximately 106.6 trillion yen, which marked a record high.
The total budget for the Statistics Bureau and the Director-General for Policy Planning (Statistical Standards) of Japan, excluding regular personnel expenses, is approximately 31.1 billion yen.
The major items of the budget are as follows:
| Labour Force Survey | 1,642.9 mil.yen |
| Retail Price Survey | 878.3 mil.yen |
| Family Income and Expenditure Survey | 1,619.6 mil.yen |
| Unincorporated Enterprise Survey | 158.3 mil.yen |
| Survey of Research and Development | 30.9 mil.yen |
| Report on Internal Migration in Japan | 3.5 mil.yen |
| Current Survey Operations | 47.3 mil.yen |
| Survey of Household Economy | 657.1 mil.yen |
| Monthly Survey on Service Industries | 447.4 mil.yen |
| Maintenance of Business Register | 171.1 mil.yen |
| Economic Census | 12,632.8 mil.yen |
| Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities | 654.0 mil.yen |
| Population Census | 110.5 mil.yen |
| National Survey of Family Income, Consumption and Wealth | 5.6 mil.yen |
| Economic Conditions Survey | 163.1 mil.yen |
| Census of Manufacture | 9.0 mil.yen |
| Compensation for statistical staff of prefectural governments | 9,512.6 mil.yen |
| Cooperation with the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific | 318.0 mil.yen |
RECENT RELEASES
Consumer Price Index (2015-base) (February 2021, Japan)
- The consumer price index for Japan in February 2021 was 101.6 (2015=100), down 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/index.html
Population Estimates (October 1, 2020 (Final estimates), March 1, 2021 (Provisional estimates))
- As of October 1, 2020 (Final estimates)
- The total population was 125,708 thousand, a decrease of 459 thousand (0.36%) from the previous year.
- The population under 15 years old was 15,025 thousand, a decrease of 185 thousand (1.22%) from the previous year.
- The population aged 15 to 64 was 74,492 thousand, a decrease of 579 thousand (0.77%) from the previous year.
- The population aged 65 and over was 36,191 thousand, an increase of 306 thousand (0.85%) from the previous year.
- Japanese population was 123,250 thousand, a decrease of 481 thousand (0.39%) from the previous year.
- As of March 1, 2021 (Provisional estimates)
- The total population was 125.48 million, a decrease of 0.48 million (0.38%) from the previous year.
Monthly Report on Internal Migration in Japan (February 2021)
- The number of internal migrants (All nationalities) was 376,039, an increase of 13,963 (3.9%) from the previous year.
- The number of inter-prefectural migrants (All nationalities) was 165,465, an increase of 5,910 (3.7%) from the previous year.
- The number of intra-prefectural migrants (All nationalities) was 210,574, an increase of 8,053 (4.0%) from the previous year.
- The number of internal migrants (Japanese) was 332,330, an increase of 5,615 (1.7%) from the previous year.
- The number of inter-prefectural migrants (Japanese) was 140,919, a decrease of 164 (0.1%) from the previous year.
- The number of intra-prefectural migrants (Japanese) was 191,411, an increase of 5,779 (3.1%) from the previous year.
https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/idou/3.html
Consumer Price Index (2015-base) (March 2021, Ku-area of Tokyo (preliminary))
- The consumer price index for Ku-area of Tokyo in March 2021 (preliminary) was 101.6 (2015=100), down 0.2% over the year before seasonal adjustment, and up 0.2% from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/1581-t.html
Labour Force Survey (Basic Tabulation) (February 2021)
- The number of employed persons in February 2021 was 66.46 million, a decrease of 0.45 million from the previous year.
- The number of unemployed persons in February 2021 was 1.94 million, an increase of 0.35 million from the previous year.
- The unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 2.9%.
https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/results/month/index.html
Monthly Survey on Service Industries (January 2021 (preliminary))
- Monthly sales: 28.8 trillion yen, down 11.1% over the year.
- Number of persons working at the location of establishment: 29.89 million persons, down 2.6% over the year.
https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/mssi/kekka.html
April 6, 2021
Family Income and Expenditure Survey (Two-or-more-person Households: February 2021)
- Expenditures for Two-or-more-person Households
The average of monthly consumption expenditures per household for February 2021 was 252,451 yen, down 7.1% in nominal terms and down 6.6% in real terms from the previous year. - Income and Expenditures for Workers? Households
The average of monthly income per household stood at 535,392 yen, down 0.4% in nominal terms and up 0.1% in real terms from the previous year.
The average of consumption expenditures per household was 280,781 yen, down 7.4% in nominal terms and down 6.9% in real terms from the previous year.
https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/kakei/156.html
Survey of Household Economy (Two-or-more-person households: February 2021)
- 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>
- Average expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet was 15,781 yen (up 22.8% in nominal terms).
<Main Items contributed to the change of Average Expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet>
- Food: up 71.2% in nominal terms
- Clothing, footwear: up 33.0% in nominal terms
- Home electronics: up 39.3% in nominal terms
- Furniture: up 91.3% in nominal terms
https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/joukyou/12.html
