LABOR FORCE SURVEY (Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency)
The survey has originally started in September 1946 to make clear the monthly movement of labor force status by the Statistics Bureau, Prime Minister's office (now, the Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency). From 1983, it has been established as a sampling survey for households and individuals covering about 40,000 households and their household member and taken as of the end of each month (as of 26 for December). Data on labor force status are sought for a week ending the last day of each month (from 20 to 26 for December), covering about 100,000 persons aged 15 and over.
FAMILY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE SURVEY (Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency)
The survey is conducted every month by the Statistic Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency, in order to make clear the actual conditions of family incomes and expenditures in national life. The survey has developed from the Consumer Price Survey which was initiated in July 1946 for the main cities of the country. With the inclusion of family income in the survey items in September 1950, it was given a new name, Family Income and Expenditure survey (Shohi Jjttai Chosa) in November 1951, and the title was further revised in April 1953 to the present name (Kakei Chosa).
The survey covers nationwide non-agricultural, forestry and fishery households with 2 or more household members. Family account books for the month are distributed to about 8,000 sample households and entries are made by the households. As is understood by the survey system, the "all households" in this survey refer to households excluding agricultural, forestry and fishery households and one-person households. And the "workers' households" refer to those, among all households, whose heads are employees (excluding executives).
HOUSING SURVEY (Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency)
The Housing Survey has been carried out every five years since 1948, to clarify the present situation and its change of the dwelling throughout the country, and the tenth survey was taken in 1993.
In the 1993 survey, approximately 1 : 5.5 of the Enumeration Districts of the 1990 Population Census all over Japan was sampled on the average in the first stage, and approximately 153,000 unit districts were selected at random from among those demarcated in the sample enumeration districts as of February 1, 1993. All dwellings and non-residential buildings with dwellers that existed as of October 1, 1993 within the survey districts and households living therein were surveyed. The survey was conduted through the channels of the Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency; prefectures; shi (cities), machi (towns), mura (villages); and enumerators. Questionnaires were filled out by self-entry method (partly by enumerators).
