Overview
- Seasonally adjusted effective job-to-applicant ratio stayed at 1.20 in September, unchanged from August.
- The new-job ratio edged down to 2.14, a 0.01-point month-over-month decline.
- Active vacancies fell 0.7% from August and active jobseekers decreased 0.8%.
- Raw new job postings were 3.2% lower than a year earlier.
- Industry and regional splits diverged, with increases in education, transport and professional services, declines in wholesale and retail, information and communications, and accommodation and food services, and prefectural ratios ranging from 1.81 in Fukui to 1.02 in Hokkaido, Osaka and Fukuoka, with Tokyo at 1.72 and Kanagawa at 0.85 on a reception basis.