Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare
February 16,2005
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 2004 -


1 Cash Earnings

Average monthly total cash earnings per regular employee in December 2004 were 604,767 yen decreased by 0.5%.

Contractual cash earnings were 273,111 yen decreased by 0.3% and scheduled cash earnings were 253,229 yen decreased by 0.6%.

Real wage index was decreased by 0.7%.

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2 Hours Worked

Average monthly total hours worked per regular employee in December 2004 were 151.5 hours decreased by 0.2% compared with a year earlier.

Non-scheduled hours worked in Manufacturing were 16.3 hours increased by 0.5% and its seasonally adjusted figure decreased by 1.7% from the previous month.

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3 Employment

Regular employees in December 2004 were increased by 0.6% compared with a year earlier, full-time employees were decreased by 0.2%, part-time employees were increased by 3.5%.

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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
604,767yen
 (-0.5)
 273,111yen
 (-0.3)
 253,229yen
 (-0.6)
 19,882yen
 ( 3.8)
 331,656yen
 ( -0.5)
Hours WorkedTotal Hours Scheduled Non-scheduled Days Worked Non-scheduled
(Manufacturing)
151.5hr.
 (-0.2)
 140.7hr.
 (-0.2)
 10.8hr.
 ( 0.9)
 19.7days
 <-0.1>
 16.3hr.
 ( 0.5)
Regular employmentRegular employees Full-time Part-time Accession Rate Separation Rate
42,985tho.
 ( 0.6)
 31,923tho.
 (-0.2)
 11,062tho.
 ( 3.5)
 1.61%
 < 0.05>
 1.58%
 <-0.04>

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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