ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate October - December, 2004

Response Rate / October - December, 2004

The area of this survey is business enterprises that establish their headquarters or principal offices in Japan and have capital stock 10 million yen or more.

		All Enterprises	Large Enterprises	Medium-sized Enterprises	Small Enterprises
All industries	Estimate Enterprises	1,177,513	6,340	29,505	1,141,668
	Sample enterprises	13,706	5,152	3,506	5,048
	Response enterprises	10,963	4,575	2,759	3,629
	Response rate (%)	80.0	88.8	78.7	71.9
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	210,463	2,379	7,063	201,021
	Sample enterprises	4,270	1,934	912	1,424
	Response enterprises	3,553	1,774	757	1,022
	Response rate (%)	83.2	91.7	83.0	71.8
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	967,050	3,961	22,442	940,647
	Sample enterprises	9,436	3,218	2,594	3,624
	Response enterprises	7,410	2,801	2,002	2,607
	Response rate (%)	78.5	87.0	77.2	71.9

note:

Large enterprises are corporations with capital of 1 billion yen or over
Middle-sized enterprises are corporations with capital of 100 million yen to 1 billion yen
Small enterprises are corporations with capital of 10 to 100 million yen

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