| Abstract | |
| Survey Number | 0408 |
| Survey Title | Fact-finding Survey on the Work Conditions among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, 2004 |
| Depositor | National Federation of Small Business Associations |
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| Educational Purpose | Only available for research. |
| Period of Data Use Permission | One year |
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| Summary |
The purpose of this survey is to accurately apprehend work conditions in small and medium-sized enterprises and to contribute to the establishment of appropriate labor policies in small and medium-sized enterprises and the promotion of timely labor support by the National Federation. The National Federation of Small Business Associations and the Prefectural Federation of Small Business Associations have conducted the “Fact-finding Survey on Work Conditions among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” since 1964, with this being the 41st survey. This survey targets approximately 50,000 workplaces but with approximately 67.2% of respondents having 30 or fewer employees, it especially reveals work conditions of small-scale businesses. The survey was conducted to examine the time series items related to wages, working hours, employment, management, etc., as well as items related to the annual labor situation. This year, in addition to the time series items of management status and obstacles, working hours including regular weekly working hours, wage reform status and starting salary of new graduates, there are questions on implementation of employment adjustment, retirement benefits system, system of mandatory retirement age and continuous employment system, the wage system, etc. |
| Data Type | quantitative research: micro data |
| Universe | |
| Unit of Observation | Organization |
| Sample Size | Sample size: 49,781, number of responses: 21,681, response rate: 43.6% |
| Date of Collection |
2004-07-01 ~ 2004-07-01 2004/07/01 |
| Time Period |
2004 ~ 2004 |
| Spatial Unit | Japan Japan |
| Sampling Procedure | Probability: Stratified Sampling was based on “the 2001 (Heisei 13) Establishment and Enterprise Census,” in line with the number of private businesses with 300 or fewer employees (excluding agriculture, forestry, and fisheries), distributed among prefectures, with the sampling ratio based on industry and employee size. |
| Mode of Data Collection | Self-administered questionnaire: Paper Arbitrary sampling of target businesses from the Prefectural Federation of Small Business Associations with all distributed and collected questionnaires tabulated collectively by the National Federation of Small Business Associations |
| Investigator | National Federation of Small Business Associations |
| DOI | 10.34500/SSJDA.0408 |
| Sponsors (Funds) | |
| Related Publications (by the Investigator) | 【 Questionnaire |
| Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) | List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis) |
| Documentation | |
| Major Survey Items |
(1) Items concerning wages 1.Starting salary for new graduates (by school of graduation) 2.Situation regarding wage revision (whether it has been implemented within the past 5 years, revision details) 3.Situation regarding wage system revision (wage revision implementation this year, total number of eligible people, average scheduled wages before and after revision, average amount of increase or decrease) (2) Items concerning working hours 1. Scheduled weekly working hours 2. Average monthly overtime hours (3) Items concerning employment 1.Employees’ employment status (number of employees by gender and employment status) 2.Composition of regular workers by age (number of regular workers by age and gender) 3.Implementation of employment adjustment (whether implemented, employment adjustment method, reason for implementation) 4.Retirement benefits system (presence or absence of system, form for preparing payment, transition of qualified pension system to other systems) 5.Mandatory retirement age system/employment continuation system (presence or absence of mandatory retirement system, retirement age; regarding extension of employment system and reemployment system: existence/maximum age/range of eligible people/standard to determine eligible people/status/working conditions (comparison of wages, positions, work content, daily working hours, weekly working days, etc. compared to the time of retirement) 6.State of employment of new graduates (the number of new graduates per school of graduation scheduled to be hired in March 2004; the number of hires in 2004, 2003, and 2001; hiring plan for March 2005 and the number of people scheduled to be hired per school of graduation) (4) Items concerning management 1. State of management 2. Management obstacles 3. Future policy direction of main operations 4. Management strengths (5) Attributes, other 1. Presence of a labor union 2. Industry, etc. |
| Date of Release | 2005/10/12 |
| Topics in CESSDA |
Click here for details Employment Working conditions Business/industrial management and organisation |
| Topics in SSJDA | Employment/Labor |
| Version | 1 ： 2005-10-12 |
| Notes for Users | Variable and value labels are written in Japanese. |