ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate July - September, 2008

Response Rate / July - September, 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	1,146,530	6,124	30,106	1,110,300
	Sample enterprises	14,560	5,118	3,470	5,972
	Response enterprises	11,554	4,474	2,700	4,380
	Response rate (%)	79.4	87.4	77.8	73.3
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	198,939	2,273	7,171	189,495
	Sample enterprises	4,365	1,948	900	1,517
	Response enterprises	3,678	1,770	763	1,145
	Response rate (%)	84.3	90.9	84.8	75.5
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	947,591	3,851	22,935	920,805
	Sample enterprises	10,195	3,170	2,570	4,455
	Response enterprises	7,876	2,704	1,937	3,235
	Response rate (%)	77.3	85.3	75.4	72.6

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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