Japan (1)
1.Series
Title:
Report on Employment Service.
Starting year:
1963.
2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons
Name of the agency:
Koukyo Shokugyo Anteisho (Public Employment Security Office).
Type of agency:
Public service under a national authority.
Name of the national authority:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Location of the local offices making the registrations:
In all 47 prefectures of the country totalling 600 locations.
Type of services provided/administered by the agency:
Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
Assisting job-seekers to establish their own business;
Assisting employers to find workers;
Vocational guidance;
Paying unemployment compensation;
Other: industrial Employment Information Service: providing specific information on local labour markets and conditions and other useful information for job selection and skill attainment; employment Management Service: providing specific consultation and assistance to employers on employment management-related matters, such as recruitment, assignment, etc. as well as assistance for the adequate employment management of older persons and persons with disabilities); employment Grant Service: providing specific assistance to job-seekers (various benefits to facilitate their re-employment); to employers (in employing job-seekers having trouble finding employment, and various grants to prevent unemployment caused by economic fluctuation).
Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:
34.3% (February 2001).
3.The following information is registered about a person:
Name;
Sex;
Address of usual residence;
Date of birth;
Educational/attainment, with 6 categories distinguished; vocational/attainment, with 650 categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
Current/past activity status, with 2 categories distinguished;
Type of work (occupation) of past or present job. Direct links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with 2,167 groups distinguished. Direct links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
Name of present or previous work place;
Other: personal family details; desired work conditions; reason for leaving previous or present job.
4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):
Seeking work (R) and (S);
Availability for work (R) and (S);
Age (lower limit: 15 years; no upper limit) (R) and (S).
5.Criteria used for exclusion of a person from the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):
Death (R) and (S);
Taking up residency abroad (R) and (S);
Commencement of a new job (R) and (S);
Failure to contact the agency/service (R) and (S);
Other: at own request (R) and (S).
6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics
The statistics refer to job-seekers only.
7.Updating of the registers
The registers are not updated regularly.
8.Unemployment rates
Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.
9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced
Series:
Report of Employment Service.
Reference period:
Month, Quarter, Calendar year, Fiscal year (1 April-31 March).
Frequency of production:
Monthly.
Descriptive variables used:
Sex;
Age;
Occupation;
Industry;
Geographic characteristics;
Previous work experience.
Form of publication:
On paper, for general audience;
On a website (http://www.mhlw.go.jp) [Japanese only].
Agency responsible for publication:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Title and periodicity of the publications:
Monthly Report on Employment Service; Annual Report on Employment Service.
10.Methodological information about the statistics
Form of release:
On paper, for general audience;
On a website (http://www.mhlw.go.jp) [Japanese only].
Agency responsible for the release:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources
Comparisons have not been made with unemployment statistics from other sources.
12.Major changes since the start of the statistics
There have been no major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics.