ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate October - December, 2008

Response Rate / October - December, 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	1,146,302	6,069	30,051	1,110,182
	Sample enterprises	14,337	5,064	3,418	5,855
	Response enterprises	11,408	4,435	2,678	4,295
	Response rate (%)	79.6	87.6	78.3	73.4
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	198,892	2,258	7,164	189,470
	Sample enterprises	4,323	1,934	896	1,493
	Response enterprises	3,637	1,750	770	1,117
	Response rate (%)	84.1	90.5	85.9	74.8
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	947,410	3,811	22,887	920,712
	Sample enterprises	10,014	3,130	2,522	4,362
	Response enterprises	7,771	2,685	1,908	3,178
	Response rate (%)	77.6	85.8	75.7	72.9

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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