In response to the problem that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism continued to improperly process data such as rewriting the data of "basic statistics", which is particularly important among national statistics, the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications sent experts to each ministry. A team was dispatched to check the methods of investigating all key statistics, and other measures were put together to prevent a recurrence.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has continued to mishandle data sent from business operators, such as rewriting the data sent by the construction industry, which is one of the country's key statistics and shows the monthly trend of construction orders received. It has become clear that
In response to this, the study team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Statistics Committee held a meeting on the 5th and compiled measures to prevent recurrence.
In this, it points out that there was a problem in the aggregation process, such as including survey data sent after the submission deadline in another month.
In order to check the methods of surveying and aggregating all 53 basic statistics, a team of experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications can be dispatched to each ministry, and online surveys can be conducted so that handwriting cannot be rewritten. We are asking you to improve the environment.
The Statistics Commission will submit this recurrence prevention measure to Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko.