PREFECTURES
Number of households living on welfare by prefecture, from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's report on social welfare adminsitrative affairs. In the statistics, the monthly number of households living on welfare is counted by prefecture. Here, the average for the 12 month period in year 2008 has been used. Because in the statistics, ordinance designated cities and major urban cities were counted separately from prefectures, the numbers were combined according to prefecture.