Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare
February 16,2004
Statistics and Information Department,Minister`s Secretariat
Employment Statistics Division
Tel +81-3-5253-1111 Ext. 7609, 7610

Final Report of Monthly Labour Survey
- December 2003-


1 Cash Earnings

Average monthly total cash earnings per regular employee in December 2003 were 621,143 yen decreased by 1.5%.

Contractual cash earnings were 280,378 yen decreased by 0.1% and scheduled cash earnings were 260,786 yen decreased by 0.4%.

Real wage index was decreased by 1.0%.

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2 Hours Worked

Average monthly total hours worked per regular employee in December 2003 were 153.0 hours decreased by 0.1% compared with a year earlier.

Non-scheduled hours worked in Manufacturing were 16.3 hours increased by 7.9% and its seasonally adjusted figure increased by 0.5% from the previous month.

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3 Employment

Regular employees in December 2003 were decreased by 0.4% compared with a year earlier, full-time employees were decreased by 1.1%, part-time employees were increased by 2.6%.

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Note) Unless noted specifically, figures correspond to establishments with 5 or more regular employees.




Cash EarningsTotal Cash Earnings Contractual
Cash Earnings		 Scheduled Non-scheduled Special
Cash Earnings
621,143yen
 (-1.5)
 280,378yen
 (-0.1)
 260,786yen
 (-0.4)
 19,592yen
 ( 3.1)
 340,765yen
 (-2.6)
Hours WorkedTotal Hours Scheduled Non-scheduled Days Worked Non-scheduled
(Manufacturing)
153.0hr.
 (-0.1)
 142.3hr.
 (-0.5)
 10.7hr.
 ( 5.0)
 19.8days
 <-0.1>
 16.3hr.
 ( 7.9)
Regular employmentRegular employees Full-time Part-time Accession Rate Separation Rate
42,956tho.
 (-0.4)
 33,047tho.
 (-1.1)
 9,909tho.
 ( 2.6)
 1.56%
 <-0.15>
 1.62%
 <-0.13>

Note) ( ) means "Ratio to the same month of the Preceding year in percentage". < > means "Difference from the same month of the Preceding year".

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