Where people live and work
Select where people live to see where they work. Select the same category again to clear it.
Loading categories for each survey.
Choose people by gender, age and occupation, then compare residence and workplace. Select one of eight regions or an individual prefecture’s bar. Both sides use the same count scale.
About the display and calculations
This view uses gender, age, occupation, residence and workplace. Residence and workplace bars share the same count scale. Groups and details are levels of the same attribute; respondents are not counted twice.
Each chart applies conditions from the other attributes. Its own selection is indicated by colour and outlines. The headline count applies all conditions. Multiple selections use OR within an attribute and AND across attributes. Clearing a group also clears its detailed selections. Clearing the last detailed selection returns to the whole group.
Changing survey year clears the conditions. Residence and workplace use eight regions and prefectures, retaining original categories such as overseas, unknown and missing answers. Age is grouped into under 30, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60 or older.
These charts describe survey respondents, not estimates of Japan’s population. A distribution of educational backgrounds and work does not, by itself, establish whether a mismatch exists.
Source: Japan’s Cabinet Office, e-CSTI open data (p4ds2025 v1.0). Data preparation and visualization: Rokugeisha.