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Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board Special Data Dissemination Standard (AS PROVIDED TO THE IMF BY THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRY)   Japan Labor market: Wages/Earnings Last Posted: Jan-19-2010 Last Certified: Jan-22-2010 Last Updated: Jan-19-2010 Contact Person(s)          Printer Friendly Page   Chief of Planning and Adjustment Charge, Employment Statistics Division, Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2-2, 1-chome Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 100-8916   Phone : 81 3 5253 1111, extensions 7609 / 7610   Fax : 81 3 3502 5396   Email : 1STSTA@mhlw.go.jp  Dissemination Formats Summary Methodology Access National Summary Data Page Cross-country comparisons: access the DSBB metadata query facility

The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
Coverage characteristics	5.1.1 Statistical presentation Data are disseminated on wages/earnings in the form of an index (2005 =100). Cash earnings comprise money earned before deductions for income tax, for social insurance contributions, etc, and are defined as follows: total cash earnings comprise contractual cash earnings, (both scheduled and non-scheduled, that is, overtime pay) and special cash earnings. The real wages index is computed using the Consumer Price Index (excluding imputed rent). The data are based on the surveyed wages/earnings paid in the reference month. The data are not seasonally adjusted except for the data for major indices.
Periodicity	4.1.1 Periodicity Monthly
Timeliness	4.1.2 Timeliness The provisional report is generally published at the end of the month following the reference month.
Access by the Public
Advance dissemination of release calendar	5.1.3 Advance release calendar A schedule of precise release dates for the next three months is shown on every issue of the Monthly Report on the Monthly Labour Survey, the provisional report and the Internet website. The Regulation of the Monthly Labour Survey, which is available to the public, stipulates that the provisional report must be released by the 10th day of the second month after the reference month. In practice, the provisional report is released at the end of the month following the survey, except when the Consumer Price Index for the reference month is not released during the month following the reference month.
Simultaneous release to all interested parties	5.1.4 Simultaneous release The data are simultaneously released to all interested parties by publishing the Provisional Report of Monthly Labour Survey, copies of which are distributed in Japanese only, free of charge, to the media. At the same day, the data are posted on the following Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Internet websites: (http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/index.html) in Japanese, and (http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/database/db-l/index.html) in English.
Integrity
Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including those relating to the confidentiality of individually identifiable information	0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare The Monthly Labour Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare　is governed by the Statistics Act (Act no.53 of  2007). 0.1.2 Data sharing and coordination among data producing agencies Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare The administrative organ or an incorporated administrative agency, etc. may utilize questionnaire information pertaining to statistical surveys they have conducted in the following cases: (i) When producing statistics or conducting statistical research (ii) When preparing lists of names to be used for surveys for producing statistics. 0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare The Statistics Act (Article 39, 40, 41 and 43) stipulates the confidentiality of statistics. The act also stipulates the penalty for offenders (Article 57,58,59,60,61 and 62).   0.1.4 Ensuring statistical reporting Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare The administrative organ may, when conducting a fundamental statistical survey, request individuals or juridical persons, or other organizations to report on matters necessary for producing fundamental statistics. (Statistics Act (Article 13)). 1.1.2 Selection of sources, methodology, and modes of dissemination Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare The Statistics Law of March 26, 1947 specifies that the details of the Labour Force Survey including survey items, coverage, reference period (survey week), and methodology are prescribed by the regulation on the Monthly Labour Survey. 1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Copies of the Statistics Law are available in Japanese at: Government Publication Service Center, 1-2-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0013, Japan. Phone: 81 3 3504 3885. Fax: 81 3 3504 3889. The Statistics Law is also reproduced on the Statistics Bureaus' Internet home page (http://www.stat.go.jp).
Identification of internal government access to data before release	1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No officials outside of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare have access to the data before their release to the public.
Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases	1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No ministerial commentary is attached to the release of the data.
Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology	4.3.1 Revision schedule In the case of changes to the sample of establishments with 30 or more regular employees, the indices are revised retroactively to adjust the numerical gaps of the survey results. However, in the case of changes to the sample of establishments with 5-29 regular employees, the indices are not revised.   Any change in the methodology is identified in the release materials when the new data are released. 4.3.2 Identification of preliminary and/or revised data The data are provisional when first released.   The data become final about the middle of the second month after the reference month, when the final data are published in the press release in Japanese only, the title of which is Maitsuki Kinrou Toukei Chosa (Kakuhou) (Monthly Labour Survey (Final Report)) and in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.   Internet website (Japanese and English, address: http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/index.html  (Japanese) and http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/database/db-l/index.html (English)). The final data are also published in the monthly bulletin which is published by Rodo Horei Kyokai about the middle of the third month after the reference month and the annual bulletin (Japanese and English) which is published by Rohmu Gyosei Kenkyujo. 1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Any change in the methodology is identified in the release materials when the new data are released.
Quality
Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics	5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques The Annual Report on the Monthly Labour Survey publishes a detailed description of the methodology. (See also summary methodology)
Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness	4.2.1 Internal consistency Increasing or decreasing rates may be revised up to the past when surveying those old sample with 30 or more employees started.   Indices and increasing or decreasing rates in this report are adjusted so as to smooth the gap, which occurs in case of conversion of sample. But time series other than indices are not adjusted, in which some time serial gaps exist.   The Monthly Report on the Monthly Labour Survey publishes data similar to that published in the Provisional Report of Monthly Labour Survey, in both seasonally adjusted and seasonally unadjusted formats.   The August 2009 issue (for example) of the Monthly Labour Survey publishes:   Tables 1, 8-11 showing monthly time series for the reference month of August.   Tables 2, 3 showing annual average time series for 2004-2008 for calendar year and for 2004-2008 for fiscal year (April-March); quarterly average time series for 2007/2-2009/2; and monthly time series for August 2008- August 2009.   Table 7 showing quarterly average data for 2008/3-2009/2 and monthly average data for August 2008- August 2009.   The Annual Report on the Monthly Labour Survey, 2007 publishes: Monthly time series for the latest year and annual average data for calendar years since 2003 for: wage indices by industry, total cash earnings (Table 1); wages indices by industry, contractual cash earnings (Table 3); and wage indices by industry, scheduled cash earnings (Table 4). Monthly time series for the latest year and annual average data for calendar years since 2003 for: wage indices by size of establishment (Table 5); and real wage indices (Table 6). Monthly data for the latest year and annual average data for calendar years since 2003 for: monthly cash earnings per regular employee by industry (Table 13); and monthly cash earnings per regular employee by specific industry (Table 16). Annual average data for calendar years since 2003 for: monthly cash earnings per regular employee by industry and size of establishment (Table 14); and monthly cash earnings per regular employee by industry, sex and type of employment (Table 15). Bonuses data since 2003 (Tables 29-32). Annual indices by calendar year for periods ranging from 1970 to the present and 1971 to the present (Tables 35-44). Annual indices by fiscal year for periods ranging from 1970 to the present and 1971 to the present (Tables 45-52). Monthly cash earnings during the latest fiscal year (Table 53). Monthly hours worked during the latest fiscal year (Table 54). The annual Basic Survey on Wage Structure publishes data on contractual cash earnings, scheduled cash earnings and annual special cash earnings by age group, length of service group (establishment survey and individual survey) 4.2.2 Temporal consistency Indices of a certain past period may be revised when those sample with 30 or more employees are converted to others, which occurs about every 2 or 3 years, and also when the base year (at present 2005) is changed.
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