Distribution of Employee and Capacity of New Undergraduate Students at Universities in Social Science (By Blocs and Areas)

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Distribution of Employee and Capacity of New Undergraduate Students at Universities in Social Science (By Blocs and Areas) Regional resources and their utilization. What is the situation of human resources in regions? ■国土のモニタリング Distribution of employee and capacity of new undergraduate students at universities in social science (by blocs and areas). A look at the distribution of human resources in the social sciences shows that while the highest concentrations are in the Tokyo Urban Economic Sphere and the Kinki region, legal professionals other than lawyers are distributed fairly evenly nationwide, with a relatively high proportion located in western Japan. Regional distribution of professionals (legal and others) and students in the social sciences 1995 2000 person of capacity of new legal A certified undergraduate Note: A judge, a affairs public students at 1. Figures for legal professionals, CPAs, and patent attorneys were public engagement accountant, a calculated by dividing the nationwide share for each occupation by prosecutor, universities in besides licensed tax the nationwide share of employed persons aged 15 or older based a lawyer social science the accountant on place of residence as shown in the National Census. following Hokkaido 0.65 2. Figures for students in the social sciences at universities and colleges were calculated by dividing the nationwide share of Northern Hokkaido 0.68 0.91 0.74 0.37 students in each specialization by the nationwide share of the Tohoku Northern population as shown in the List of Nationwide Schools. 0.33 0.85 0.37 Southern Tohoku 0.32 Social sciences: law department, economics department, business Tohoku Southern management department, commercial department, sociology 0.55 0.87 0.59 Northern department, and others. Tohoku 0.5 Northern Kanto 3. The regional divisions used in this study are as follows 0.49 0.77 0.65 Hokkaido: Hokkaido Prefecture Kanto Tokyo Urban 1.65 Economic Northern Tohoku: Aomori, Iwate, and Akita Prefecture Tokyo Urban 1.73 1.19 1.57 Economic Kou-Shin- Southern Tohoku: Miyagi, Yamagata, and Fukushima Prefecture 0.27 Kou-Shin- Etsu-Sei Northern Kanto: Tochigi, Ibaraki, and Gunma Prefecture 0.41 0.84 0.65 Etsu-Sei Tokyo Urban Economic Sphere: Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa Hokuriku 0.48 Prefectures as well as the Tokyo Metropolis Hokuriku 0.44 0.72 0.67 Kou-Shin-Etsu-Sei: Niigata, Yamanashi, Nagano, and Shizuoka Nagoya Nagoya 0.94 Prefecture 0.74 0.73 0.95 Urban Urban Hokuriku: Toyama, Ishikawa, and Fukui Prefecture Kinki 1.43 Nagoya Urban Economic Sphere: Gifu, Aichi, and Mie Prefecture Kinki 1.20 1.08 1.14 Kinki: Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, and Wakayama Prefecture Sanin 0.23 Sanin: Tottori and Shimane Prefecture Sanin 0.74 0.82 0.44 anyo: Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi Prefecture Sanyo 0.69 Shikoku: Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi Prefecture Sanyo 0.65 1.12 0.79 Northern Kyushu: Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, and Oita Prefecture Southern Kyushu: Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima Prefecture Shikoku 0.45 Shikoku 0.47 1.00 0.70 Okinawa: Okinawa Prefecture Northern Northern 0.82 1.06 0.77 0.84 Kyushu Kyushu Southern Southern 0.85 0.91 0.54 0.48 Kyushu Kyushu Okinawa 0.74 1.38 0.40 Okinawa 0.82.
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