The issue was that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism rewrote the data of "basic statistics", which is especially important among national statistics. We have decided on a policy to verify.
A statistical committee member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, which has jurisdiction over national statistics, in response to the problem that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was improperly processing such as rewriting the data of "Construction work order dynamic statistics" and double counting. The meeting was held on the 24th.
At the meeting, a person in charge of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism apologized for "inappropriate reporting and caused inconvenience," and explained the circumstances of the problem.
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko, who attended, requested that "why you noticed at an early stage and could not improve, etc., should be thoroughly verified from the standpoint of a third party."
Then, next month, when the third-party committee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism compiles the report, the committee will scrutinize whether the content is appropriate and set up a specialized working team, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will set up the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. We have decided on a policy to verify whether the response after receiving the report from was appropriate.
Hiroe Tsubaki, chairman of the Statistics Committee, told reporters, "The ultimate goal is how to restore public confidence in official statistics. Improvements, including possible problems in all ministries and agencies. I want to do it. "