How education connects with work
Select an educational level or field of study to explore people’s work. Select it again to clear it.
Loading categories for each survey.
Select education and university-major buttons, then explore the industries and occupations below. Open “Show detailed categories” for finer choices. Expanding or collapsing does not change your conditions.
About the display and calculations
This view uses gender, educational attainment, university major, industry and occupation. Horizontal bars share a count scale within each attribute. 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. Detailed categories retain each year’s published options. The established mapping uses eight education groups, 13 university-major groups, nine industry groups and four occupation groups. Missing answers are included in denominators.
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.