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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.

Because this is data for 2008, before the effects of last year's recession, it is necessary to note that the numbers have probably increased drastically in 2009. The official data for 2009 is expected to be announced by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the autumn of 2010.

The greates number of households living on welfare per 100 households is in Osaka, with 4.35. This is two times the national average, 2.14. Kochi (3.75), Hokkaido (3.70), Aomori (3.36) and Fukuoka (3.24) follow. The norther part of Tohoku, Hokkaido and prefectures in western Japan are ranked high.

The correlative ranking shows that it is positively correlated with the Annual Rate of Unemployment. The rate of households living on welfare is high in areas with high rate of unemployment, which is, in a sense, only natural. It is negatively correlated with the number of manufacturing industry workers and industrial production. It shows that there are many unemployed people and a high rate of households living on welfare in areas with few manufacturing industries. However, because this includes the first half of 2008 in which the manufacturing industry was doing well, the data may be somewhat different in 2009.

It is also highly correlated with the rate of senior citizens living alone, which supports the fact that many households living on welfare are elderly households.

Interestingly, it is also highly related with the amount of Consumption of Beer. Anxiety about living due to unemployment, etc. may be boosting the amount of consumption of beer.

HOUSEHOLDS LIVING ON WELFARE

Source　Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's report on social welfare administrative affairs (2018)

Rank	Prefectures	Households Living on Welfare		Standard Score
Rank	Prefectures	Amount	per 100	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Osaka	218,977世帯	5.14	77.61
2	Okinawa	28,309世帯	4.40	70.17
3	Hokkaido	121,999世帯	4.40	70.15
4	Kochi	14,782世帯	4.19	68.06
5	Aomori	23,849世帯	4.03	66.44
6	Fukuoka	94,216世帯	3.93	65.39
7	Kyoto	42,064世帯	3.47	60.80
8	Nagasaki	21,436世帯	3.38	59.86
9	Tokyo	229,767世帯	3.24	58.41
10	Tokushima	10,491世帯	3.13	57.35
11	Hyogo	77,878世帯	3.09	56.87
12	Oita	15,734世帯	2.94	55.37
13	Kagoshima	23,299世帯	2.88	54.85
14	Wakayama	12,296世帯	2.79	53.90
15	Kanagawa	117,330世帯	2.74	53.39
16	Miyazaki	14,062世帯	2.68	52.83
17	Ehime	17,297世帯	2.65	52.45
18	Akita	11,275世帯	2.65	52.45
19	Nara	14,786世帯	2.50	51.00
20	Kumamoto	19,069世帯	2.46	50.53
21	Hiroshima	31,928世帯	2.44	50.36
22	Chiba	66,097世帯	2.32	49.12
23	Tottori	5,467世帯	2.31	49.09
24	Saitama	73,599世帯	2.26	48.52
25	Okayama	18,906世帯	2.25	48.39
26	Miyagi	21,555世帯	2.18	47.72
27	Tochigi	16,340世帯	1.98	45.68
28	Iwate	10,295世帯	1.96	45.53
29	Saga	6,333世帯	1.91	45.05
30	Kagawa	8,162世帯	1.86	44.50
31	Aichi	60,223世帯	1.85	44.38
32	Yamaguchi	11,946世帯	1.81	43.99
33	Niigata	15,966世帯	1.78	43.72
34	Ibaraki	21,872世帯	1.77	43.59
35	Fukushima	13,582世帯	1.74	43.27
36	Mie	12,458世帯	1.58	41.64
37	Yamanashi	5,550世帯	1.55	41.35
38	Shizuoka	24,322世帯	1.55	41.34
39	Shimane	4,483世帯	1.54	41.31
40	Yamagata	6,272世帯	1.52	41.03
41	Gunma	12,247世帯	1.46	40.42
42	Shiga	8,096世帯	1.41	39.99
43	Ishikawa	6,100世帯	1.26	38.48
44	Gifu	9,522世帯	1.17	37.50
45	Fukui	3,286世帯	1.12	37.06
46	Nagano	8,756世帯	1.01	35.92
47	Toyama	3,078世帯	0.74	33.14
	Japan	1,615,357世帯	2.78