According to interviews with related parties, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism continued to handle inappropriate data, such as double-counting statistical data showing trends in orders for the construction industry.
The statistics may have been larger than they really are, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is investigating the facts.
According to the people concerned, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism inappropriately handled the data in the "Construction Work Order Dynamic Statistics," which shows the monthly order trends of the construction industry.
It means that data such as the amount of orders submitted by construction companies nationwide was doubled.
Improper handling seems to have continued eight years before the start of collecting statistics by the current method, and it is said that it was revised after April, but the statistics are larger than the actual situation due to double counting of data. It may have been.
Construction work order dynamic statistics are also used in the calculation of GDP = gross domestic product, and are positioned as the most important "core statistics" in the statistics, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is further investigating the facts and circumstances.