ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate January - March, 2008

Response Rate / January - March, 2008

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	1,160,164	6,170	28,991	1,125,003
	Sample enterprises	14,095	5,122	3,345	5,628
	Response enterprises	11,127	4,418	2,588	4,121
	Response rate (%)	78.9	86.3	77.4	73.2
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	202,424	2,291	7,018	193,115
	Sample enterprises	4,227	1,939	898	1,390
	Response enterprises	3,494	1,723	737	1,034
	Response rate (%)	82.7	88.9	82.1	74.4
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	957,740	3,879	21,973	931,888
	Sample enterprises	9,868	3,183	2,447	4,238
	Response enterprises	7,633	2,695	1,851	3,087
	Response rate (%)	77.4	84.7	75.6	72.8

note:

Large enterprises are corporations with capital of 1 billion yen or over
Medium-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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