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Abstract
Survey Number 1089
Survey Title Fact-finding Survey on the Work Conditions among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, 2014
Depositor National Federation of Small Business Associations
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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 employment and 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 51st survey. This survey targets approximately 40,000 workplaces but with two-thirds of respondents having 30 or fewer employees, it especially reveals work conditions of small-scale businesses. In addition to basic items relating to pay, working hours, employment, and management, etc. that need to be captured in time series, this survey also investigates items related to the labor climate of each year.

This year, in addition to the time-series items on business conditions and administrative difficulties, weekly fixed working hours, starting salary of new graduates, and wage reform status, there are items related to employment of women in management positions, non-regular employment, details of revision of wages and determining factors, etc.
Data Type quantitative research: micro data
Universe Businesses with 300 or fewer employees (100 or fewer for the wholesaling industry, 50 or fewer for the retail industry, and 100 or fewer for the service industry)
Unit of Observation Organization
Sample Size Sample size: 38,452, number of valid responses: 19,353 (response rate: 50.3%)
Date of Collection 2014-07-01 ~ 2014-07-01
2014/7/1
Time Period 2014 ~ 2014
Spatial Unit
Japan (except Fukushima, Tochigi, Shizuoka, Fukui, Kochi, and Oita prefectures)
Sampling Procedure Probability: Stratified
Sampling was based on “the 2009 (Heisei 21) Economic Census Basic Survey,” 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 scale.
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.1089
Sponsors (Funds)
Related Publications (by the Investigator) Questionnaire 】 【 Frequency Tables
Related Publications (based on Secondary Analysis) List of related publications (based on Secondary Analysis)
Documentation
Major Survey Items (1) Items concerning wages
 1. Starting pay for new graduates (by school of graduation)
 2. Situation regarding wage revision (whether it was implemented between January and July 2014, details of revision)
 3. Determinants of wage revision

(2) Items concerning hours of work
 1. Scheduled weekly hours of work
 2. Average hours of overtime per month
 3. Average allotment of annual paid leave and days of paid leave used

(3) Items concerning employment
 1. Employees’ employment status (number of employees by gender and employment status)
 2. State of employment of new graduates
 3. Plan to employ new graduates
 4. Increase or decrease in the number of non-regular workers and the growing form of employment
 5. Reasons for hiring non-regular workers
 6. Whether or not there are switches from non-regular to regular employment, merits and challenges relating to this switch

(4) Items concerning management
 1. State of management
 2. Management obstacles
 3. Policy direction regarding main operations
 4. Management strengths

(5) Attributes, other
 1. Presence of a labor union
 2. Industry, number of employees, etc.
 3. Absence/presence of women in management positions/number in such positions

*For details of survey items, please refer to the questionnaire.
Date of Release 2017/04/03
Topics in CESSDA Click here for details

Employment
Working conditions
Business/industrial management and organisation
Topics in SSJDA Employment/Labor
Version 1 : 2017-04-03
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