“Survey on Employment Trends, 2014”
Digest of the Summary Report
Accession rate 17.3%, Separation rate 15.5%,
the increase rates of workers rose 1.0 points from the last year
27-Aug-2015 the results of the "Survey on Employment Trends, 2014" have now been tabulated and released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The "Survey on Employment Trends" is carried out to study the characteristics of hired and separated employees in establishments in major industries across Japan, by industry and occupation, as well as by gender, age and reasons for leaving.
The survey was conducted in two parts. The results presented here are aggregation of the two survey results compiled as annual totals.
The survey selected 14,284 establishments employing 5 or more regular employees and received valid responses from 10,152 establishments for the 1st half and 9,290 for the 2nd half of the year 2014.
【Key survey results】
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1. Accession rate and separation rate The accession rate*1 was 17.3% (previous year 16.3%), 1.0 points increased and the separation rate*2 was 15.5% (previous year 15.6%), 0.1 points decrease. As a result, accession rate exceeded separation rate two years in a row. And the rate of total labor movement (accession rate + separation rate) was 32.8% (previous year 31.9%). [ Figure 2-1(PDF: 145KB), Annex Statistical Table 1-2(PDF: 73KB)] *1 Proportion of the number of hired employees to the number of regular employees of the beginning of the year 2. Accession rate and separation rate by Industries Rates in "Accommodations, Eating and Drinking Services" were highest for both accession and separation, and rates in "Services not elsewhere classified" and "Living-Related and Personal Services and Amusement Services" followed. [ Figure 5(PDF: 105KB), Annex Statistical Table 2(PDF: 153KB)] 3. Wage changes of hired career-changing employees The proportion of persons with an "increased" wage after changing career was 36.6%, 4.8 points increase on the previous year (31.8%). That of "decreased" wage was 31.6%, 2.2 points decrease (previous year 33.8%). Increase exceeded decrease. [ Table 6(PDF: 123KB)] |
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