“Survey on Employment Trends, 2013”
Digest of the Summary Report
Accession rate 16.3%, Separation rate 15.6%,
after an interval of six years, accession rate exceeded separation rate
9-Sep-2014 the results of the "Survey on Employment Trends, 2013" 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 14,326 establishments employing 5 or more regular employees and received valid responses from 10,726 establishments for the 1st half and 9,630 for the 2nd half of the year 2013.
【Key survey results】
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1. Accession rate and separation rate The accession rate*1 was 16.3% (previous year 14.8%), 1.5 points increased and the separation rate*2 was 15.6% (previous year 14.8%), 0.8 points increased. As a result, accession rate exceeded separation rate after an interval of six years. And the rate of total labor movement (accession rate + separation rate) was 31.9% (previous year 29.6%). [ Figure 2(PDF: 158KB), Annex Statistical Table 1-2(PDF: 93KB)] In terms of separation rate by reason for leaving, "personal reasons", including marriage, child birth and child rearing, long-term care, or other personal reasons, was 10.8% (previous year 10.3%), 0.5 points increase on the previous year. And "reasons of the establishment", such as operational circumstances, transfer and return after a transfer, etc. was 1.1% (previous year 1.0%), 0.1 points increase. [ Figure 4(PDF: 224KB)] *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: 144KB), Annex Statistical Table 2(PDF: 139KB)] 3. Wage changes of hired career-changing employees The proportion of persons with an "increased" wage after changing career was 31.8%, 0.5 points decrease on the previous year (32.3%). That of "decreased" wage was 33.8%, 3.4 points increase (previous year 30.4%). [ Table 5(PDF: 137KB)] |
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