ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate October - December, 2005

Response Rate / October - December, 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	1,178,844	6,195	29,416	1,143,233
	Sample enterprises	14,574	5,133	3,540	5,901
	Response enterprises	11,494	4,575	2,815	4,104
	Response rate (%)	78.9	89.1	79.5	69.5
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	208,809	2,309	7,133	199,367
	Sample enterprises	4,343	1,962	907	1,474
	Response enterprises	3,594	1,806	757	1,031
	Response rate (%)	82.8	92.0	83.5	69.9
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	970,035	3,886	22,283	943,866
	Sample enterprises	10,231	3,171	2,633	4,427
	Response enterprises	7,900	2,769	2,058	3,073
	Response rate (%)	77.2	87.3	78.2	69.4

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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