Note 1-62

(62) The labor output (hours worked × number of workers), which takes into account a decrease in hours worked, is also believed to be increasing (this is because the "Monthly Labour Survey" of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare shows that growth of per-worker total working hours index in various industries serving households was within the range of minus 0.8%~plus 0.7%, despite an increase of some 2% in the number of workers in the industries service households in 2001).