Group |
Percent of total employment (1996) |
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| Workers in agriculture, forestry, and fishing |
5.5 |
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| Workers covered by lifetime employment1 |
20 |
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| Government workers |
3.3 |
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| Construction sector workers |
10.3 |
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| Workers at smaller wholesale and retail establishments2 |
9.8 |
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| Workers at small manufacturing firms3 |
5 |
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| Total |
53.9 |
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| Share of total population (1995) |
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| Households in rural areas4 |
35.3 |
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| Share of total households (1993) |
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| Homeowners |
59.8 |
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| Source: Statistics Bureau, Japan Statistical Yearbook 1998 (Tokyo, 1997), pp.27, 38, 84, 288, 394, 599. |
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| 1. Edward J. Lincoln's estimate |
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| 2. Employees of small wholesale and retail establishments defined here as those with fewer than ten employees (with the share of total distribution of employment based on the 1994 census.) |
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3. Employees of small manufacturing firms defined here as those with fewer than twenty employees (with the share of total manufacturing employment based on 1995 census data.) |
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| 4. Defined here as the percentage of the population living outside densely populated districts (those with more than 4,000 inhabitants per square kilometer.) |
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