Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare
January 17,2005
Statistics and Information Department,Minister`s Secretariat
Employment Statistics Division
Tel +81-3-5253-1111 Ext. 7609, 7610

Final Report of Monthly Labour Survey
- November 2004 -


1 Cash Earnings

Average monthly total cash earnings per regular employee in November 2004 were 292,277 yen increased by 1.8%.

Contractual cash earnings were 273,048 yen decreased by 0.4% and scheduled cash earnings were 253,413 yen decreased by 0.6%.

Real wage index was increased by 0.8%.

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2 Hours Worked

Average monthly total hours worked per regular employee in November 2004 were 153.5 hours increased by 0.7% compared with a year earlier.

Non-scheduled hours worked in Manufacturing were 16.5 hours increased by 3.1% and its seasonally adjusted figure increased by 0.6% from the previous month.

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3 Employment

Regular employees in November 2004 were increased by 0.6% compared with a year earlier, full-time employees were decreased by 0.3%, part-time employees were increased by 3.9%.

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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
292,277yen
 ( 1.8)
 273,048yen
 (-0.4)
 253,413yen
 (-0.6)
 19,635yen
 ( 2.0)
 19,229yen
 ( 52.5)
Hours WorkedTotal Hours Scheduled Non-scheduled Days Worked Non-scheduled
(Manufacturing)
153.5hr.
 ( 0.7)
 142.8hr.
 ( 0.6)
 10.7hr.
 ( 1.9)
 19.9days
 < 0.0>
 16.5hr.
 ( 3.1)
Regular employmentRegular employees Full-time Part-time Accession Rate Separation Rate
42,957tho.
 ( 0.6)
 32,032tho.
 (-0.3)
 10,925tho.
 ( 3.9)
 1.71%
 < 0.06>
 1.66%
 < 0.01>

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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