ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate January - March, 2005

Response Rate / January - March, 2005

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	1,177,396	6,295	29,481	1,141,620
	Sample enterprises	13,594	5,107	3,487	5,000
	Response enterprises	10,796	4,513	2,728	3,555
	Response rate (%)	79.4	88.4	78.2	71.1
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	210,438	2,369	7,058	201,011
	Sample enterprises	4,248	1,923	910	1,415
	Response enterprises	3,520	1,765	745	1,010
	Response rate (%)	82.9	91.8	81.9	71.4
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	966,958	3,926	22,423	940,609
	Sample enterprises	9,346	3,184	2,577	3,585
	Response enterprises	7,276	2,748	1,983	2,545
	Response rate (%)	77.9	86.3	76.9	71.0

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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