ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate January - March, 2006

Response Rate / January - March, 2006

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	1,178,244	6,140	28,942	1,143,162
	Sample enterprises	14,301	5,076	3,407	5,818
	Response enterprises	11,300	4,497	2,772	4,031
	Response rate (%)	79.0	88.6	81.4	69.3
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	208,737	2,303	7,085	199,349
	Sample enterprises	4,308	1,955	898	1,455
	Response enterprises	3,538	1,783	754	1,001
	Response rate (%)	82.1	91.2	84.0	68.8
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	969,507	3,837	21,857	943,813
	Sample enterprises	9,993	3,121	2,509	4,363
	Response enterprises	7,762	2,714	2,018	3,030
	Response rate (%)	77.7	87.0	80.4	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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