日本新大學畢業生23% 沒有固定工作

Recently the Mainichi News on-line reported the following:

毎日新聞　2012年08月27日　23時44分（最終更新　08月27日　23時59分）

　今春の大学卒業者約５６万人のうち、ほぼ４人に１人にあたる１２万８０００人余り（約２３％）が安定した仕事に就いていないことが、文部科学省が２７日公表した学校基本調査で分かった。正社員など安定した職を得たのは６０％で、同省は「リーマン・ショックで落ちこんだ就職率は回復傾向にあるが、本人が望まぬ雇用形態で就職せざるをえない状況は課題」としている。また、東京電力福島第１原発事故の影響を受ける福島県で、小学生が大幅に減少したことも分かった。

　調査は５月１日現在の幼稚園から大学院までの全校を対象に実施した。全国の大学を今春卒業したのは５５万９０３０人。文科省は、契約社員などになる大学生の数を把握するため、今年初めて、雇用期間に１年以上の定めのある「非正規雇用」の項目を追加して調査したところ、２万１９９０人が該当。これに▽アルバイトなどの「一時的な仕事」に就いた１万９５９６人▽「進学も就職もしていない」８万６６３８人を加えた１２万８２２４人（２２．９％）が安定した仕事に就いていないことが分かった。

(試譯文)

According to the School Basic Survey which was released by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on the 27^th (August), it turned out that out of the about 560,000 people who had graduated from the universities of this spring, there were a little more than 128,000 people (about 23%) who had not taken up a stable job, it was equal to one out of four people. There was 60% of the people in stable jobs such as becoming a full-time employee; the ministry supposed that "the rate of employment which fell in the Lehman shock is in a recovery tendency, yet against the background that people does not desire to have a job, cannot help but getting a job has become a situation". Moreover, it also turned out that the number of school children had decreased sharply in Fukushima Prefecture because of the influence of the Tokyo Electric Power’s number one nuclear power plant disaster at Fukushima.

The investigation was conducted on all schools from the kindergartens to graduate schools as of May first. There was 559,030 people found graduated from universities all over the country this spring. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in order that it might grasp the number of the college students who had become a contracted employee etc., for the first time this year, added the item of "non-regular employment" for investigation which included those who had an employment contract for one year or more; 21,990 people fitted this category. To this adding 19, 596 people which took up "temporary work" of part-time job etc.; and to this also adding 86,638 people who "neither making entrance into a school nor entering an employment", it turned out that 128,224 people (22.9%) were not taking up a stable job.

I think many factors could affect the employment rate of a country. Poor economic situation could be one factor.