ESRI,Business Outlook Survey - Response Rate January - March, 2009

Response Rate / January - March, 2009

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	1,146,083	6,030	30,006	1,110,047
	Sample enterprises	14,125	5,025	3,377	5,723
	Response enterprises	11,191	4,357	2,630	4,204
	Response rate (%)	79.2	86.7	77.9	73.5
Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	198,852	2,251	7,158	189,443
	Sample enterprises	4,288	1,927	893	1,468
	Response enterprises	3,593	1,730	757	1,106
	Response rate (%)	83.8	89.8	84.8	75.3
Non-Manufacturing	Estimate Enterprises	947,231	3,779	22,848	920,604
	Sample enterprises	9,837	3,098	2,484	4,255
	Response enterprises	7,598	2,627	1,873	3,098
	Response rate (%)	77.2	84.8	75.4	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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