The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was involved in inappropriate processing such as rewriting data related to "basic statistics," which are particularly important among national statistics. , it turned out that the figures were overestimated.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism continued to mishandle the 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 orders received by the construction industry. has become clear.
Regarding this issue, a new analysis method was presented at an external expert meeting in May, so the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism recalculated the nine years from 2013 to 2021.
According to this, the total "orders received" including the main contractor and subcontractor for the eight years until fiscal 2020, when inappropriate processing continued, was overestimated by an estimated total of 34.5 trillion yen. I understand.
The annual average is more than 4.3 trillion yen, which means that the rate has been pushed up by 3.6% to 6.5%.
In addition, among these statistics, the "Comprehensive Construction Statistics", which records the amount of construction completed by the main contractor within the period and is also used to calculate GDP, was pushed up by 0.6% fraud in 2019 and 2020. It means that
On the 5th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism corrected the figures and commented, "I deeply apologize for causing inconvenience to the people."