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Economic Statistics in Japan1 National Statistical Website: http://www.stat.go.jp World Bank Economic Grouping: High income 2 Population (millions, 2014): 126.9 2 GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 31,502 Advocacy Coordination ▪Agencies involved in economic statistics: ○ Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ○ Cabinet Office ○ Ministry of Finance ○ Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ○ Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ○ Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ○ Bank of Japan ▪Statistical law protects confidentiality and independence of statistical information ▪ Decentralized statistical system ○ Plans are currently being implemented to improve coordination of production of economic statistics ▪ Publication policies in place and available to users/staff ▪ Contact points publicized for each statistical subject area ▪ User consultations are organized by producers of economic statistics ▪ Awareness of relevance, among users, of official statistics to economic policy making is considered sufficient and there are activities in place to improve upon it International Collaboration ▪Interested in participating in RPES as a provider but not as a recipient of technical assistance ▪IMF-SDDS subscriber ▪Participant in International Comparison Programme for calculating purchasing power parities Statistical Infrastructure Key Collections/Compilations Frequency Timeliness National Accounts Quarterly 1.5 months Balance of Payments Monthly 1 month Labour Force Survey Monthly 1 month Household Income/Expenditure Survey Monthly 1 month × Enterprise/Establishment Survey N/A N/A Population Census Every 5 years 4 months Economic Census Every 5 years 12 months Agricultural Census Every 5 years 7 months Standards/Classifications - SNA 1993 (2008 planned) - Japan Standard Industrial Classification - COICOP - COFOG - Plans for BoP to be coherent with BPM6 in 2014 Quality assessment framework is available and used to monitor the quality of economic statistics outputs Centralized national metadata repository is available and statistical releases are accompanied with metadata Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products Established methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses IT systems are considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics 1 This national summary was prepared by ESCAP Statistics Division in November, 2013. Results of the Capacity Screening questionnaire were received in November, 2013 from 50 of the 58 member countries who were contacted. Further information on RPES and the Core Set is available here: http://www.unescap.org/official-documents/committee-on-statistics/session/2 2 ESCAP Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014: http://www.unescap.org/resources/statistical-yearbook-asia-and-pacific-2014 NSDS information for developed countries is not included in the national summary. Technical Skills × Human resources are not considered adequate for producing the Core Set Documentation of internal processes and staff manuals are available Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations Table Legend Meet or Exceed Recommendations ● Below Recommendations Core Indicator Price and Costs Demand and Output Income and Wealth × Unavailable or No Response Reported Freq. RPES recommendations Consumer price index (CPI) Monthly Quarterly Producer price index (PPI) Monthly Quarterly Commodity price index Monthly Monthly External merchandise trade price indices Monthly Monthly Wages / Earnings data Monthly Quarterly Labour costs index / Wage index Monthly Quarterly GDP (production) nominal and real Annually Quarterly ● GDP (expenditure) nominal and real Quarterly Quarterly External trade – merchandise Monthly Monthly External trade – services Monthly Quarterly Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output Monthly Quarterly STI – services output Monthly Quarterly STI – consumer demand Monthly Quarterly STI – fixed investment Quarterly Quarterly STI – inventories Monthly Quarterly Economy structure statistics Every 5 years Every 5 years Productivity Unavailable Annually × Integrated national accounts Annually Annually Institutional sector accounts Annually Annually Balance of payments (BOP) Monthly Quarterly International investment position (IIP) Quarterly Annually External debt Quarterly Quarterly Income distribution Annually Every 5 years Assets / liabilities of depository corporations Monthly Monthly Broad money and credit aggregates Monthly Monthly Interest rate statistics Daily Monthly General government operations Annually Quarterly ● General government debt Annually Quarterly ● Money and Banking Government Labour supply and demand Monthly Annually Labour Market Hours worked Monthly Quarterly Natural Resources and Environment Natural resources Unavailable Annually × Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above) Meet or Exceed Recommendations Below Recommendations 26 Unavailable or No Response 3 2