The Hi-Stat Social Science Database Network, a website that introduces databases created and compiled by the Institute of Economic Research (IER) at Hitotsubashi University and Hi-Stat, has been transferred to the Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences (G-COE Hi-Stat) under the Global Centers of Excellence (COE) Program. Since FY2018, its contents have been passed on to the Hitotsubashi University base of the Program for Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, a project by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Going forward, we will continue to expand the registered databases.
(Part of the data are also publicly available at
https://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/databases/index.html#36）
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/

Data Repository of the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

This repository forms part of the "Program for Constructing Data Infrastructure Construction for the Humanities and Social Sciences" of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), for which the Institute of Economic Research (IER) at Hitotsubashi University was chosen as one of the centers to compile and prepare data on behalf of the JSPS.
https://d-repo.ier.hit-u.ac.jp

The Use of Official Statistical Micro Data in Academic Research and Higher Learning

The Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science (RCISSS) of the IER, Hitotsubashi University, in collaboration with the National Statistics Center, will promote the provision of official statistical anonymized data for researchers and others conducting academic research.
https://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/micro/index.html

Special Tabulation

The RCISSS is carrying out activities to support secondary use of micro data from government statistics, jointly with the Research Center for Economic and Social Risks (RCESR) of IER, Hitotsubashi University. As part of these activities, it independently totals data that, although important from a research perspective, has not been totaled by the sections implementing the relevant studies, and it publishes the results. Referred to as "Special Tabulation," this is implemented in response to timely academic topics.
https://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/database/specialtabulation.html

IPUMS-International

The IER promotes use by researchers and others involved in scientific research in Japan of anonymous data from censuses conducted around the world, provided by its research partner the Minnesota Population Center (MPC).
https://international.ipums.org/international/

Cambodian Micro Statistics Database

RCISSS is promoting the preparation and expansion of data archives inside and outside Japan with a focus on improving the usage environment for government statistical micro data. As part of this, RCISSS will perform data maintenance and support application procedures for using micro data from Cambodian government statistics, and also provide a place to use the microdata (Kunitachi Campus).
https://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/micro/cambodia-e.html

Asian Historical Statistics (ASHSTAT)

A subproject of the RCESR and the Program for Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Asian Historical Statistics Project (ASHSTAT Project) estimates long-term economic statistics for the Asia region from the pre-World War II period through today, based on the System of National Accounts (SNA). (See the Asian Historical Statistics [ASHSTAT] publication plan [https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000.html#03] for a project overview.)
● Toshiyuki Mizoguchi (ed.) Asian Historical Statistics, Volume 1: Taiwan (Toyo Keizai, Inc., 2008)
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-tw.html
Trade data: Exports by country (pre-WWII)/imports by country (pre-WWII)/amount of trade by country (post-WWII)/exports by product (pre-WWII)/imports by product (pre-WWII)/outward shipments by product and by country (pre-WWII)/inward shipments by product and by country (pre-WWII)/ Standard International Trade Classification (SITC r1)
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-tw-trade.html
● Ryoshin Minami and Fumio Makino (eds.) Asian Historical Statistics, Volume 3: China (Toyo Keizai, Inc., 2014 )
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-cn.html
Trade data: exports/imports by country (pre-WWII)
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-cn-trade.html
● Toshiyuki Mizoguchi, Hak Kil Pyo, Ho Il Moon (eds.) Asian Historical Statistics, Volume 4: Korea (Toyo Keizai, Inc., 2019 )
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-kr.html
● Russian Documents on the North Korean Economy
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-kp.html
● Konosuke Odaka, Osamu Saito, Kyoji Fukao (eds.) Asian Historical Statistics, Volume 12: Japan (Toyo Keizai, Inc.)
Land Under Cultivation and Crop Yield Data by Prefecture: 1883-1940
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000-asia-long-jp-crop.html

Long-Term Economic Statistics (LTES) Database

Long-Term Economic Statistics (LTES) (Kazushi Ohkawa, Miyohei Shinohara, and Mataji Umemura, eds., Toyo Keizai, Inc. 1965-1988) is a series of books that combines systemically historical statistics on the economy of modern Japan through means including estimation and processing across various fields of economic activity. These books provide time-series economic statistics since 1868 in accordance with national economics tabulation methods. This Historical Economic Statistics Database is the digitalized data of these long-term economic statistics.
https://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/database/ltes.html
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000.html#01
https://d-repo.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/?page=1&size=20&sort=controlnumber

Database on Gross Prefectural Product in Prewar Japan

The IER has estimated historical economic statistics of Japanese prefectures as par t of the ASHSTAT Project.
These data concerning gross value added by prefecture in pre-war Japan were estimated and analyzed in Tangjun Yuan, Tokihiko Settsu, Jean-Pascal Bassino, and Kyoji Fukao, "Gross Prefectural Domestic Product and Industrial Structure in Pre-war Japan" (The Economic Review, 60(2), April 2009, in Japanese), and in Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper No. 71 (https://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/research/discussion/2008/gde09-071.html, in Japanese), a revised and expanded version of that paper in https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/a000.html#02, and in Fukao, Kyoji, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Tatsuji Makino, Ralph Paprzycki, Tokihiko Settsu, Masanori Takashima and Joji Tokui, Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Maruzen, Tokyo, March 2015.
● Gross Value Added by Industry: Prefectural gross value added by industry (1890, 1909, 1925, 1935, 1940)
● Gross Value Added in Agriculture: Prefectural gross value added in agriculture (1883-1940)
● Gross Value Added in Manufacturing by Intermediate Industry Classification (October 1, 2010 version): Gross value added by intermediate industry classification (9 categories) for the manufacturing sector (1874, 1890, 1909, 1925, 1935, 1940)
● Employed Population by Industry: Prefectural Populations: Total and by Industry (8 categories) (1906, 1909, 1925, 1935, 1940)
● Data for Analysis of Labor Productivity by Industry and by Prefecture in Pre-war Japan (R-LTES revision)

Processed Economic Statistics Series (Publications by Institute of Economic Research)

The Processed Economic Statistics Series (Publications by Institute of Economic Research) is an internal reference material consisting of duplicates of some of the results of statistical work by the then-Statistical and Socio-economic Information unit (now the Large-Scale Data Archiving and Processing Section) as instructed by IER faculty. Twenty-nine volumes were issued during the period from 1967 through 1991. Its wide-ranging content includes various statistics such as those concerning agriculture and public finance in pre-war Japanese colonies and analytical materials on Japanese enterprises and overseas industries. While these statistical tables were prepared for specific research purposes, they can be considered widely useable for other research as well.
https://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/introduction/publications.html

New Maddison Project Database

This database of long-term historical statistics on per-capita GDP and population in countries around the world was established at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) of the University of Groningen to continue the database of the late Prof. Angus Maddison of the University of Groningen. The IER participates in this project as East Asia representative, providing data on Japan, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere.
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/

Japan Industrial Productivity (JIP) Database

The JIP Database comprises various types of annual data necessary for estimating industry-level total factor productivity (TFP), including capital service input indices and capital costs, quality-adjusted labor service input indices and labor costs, nominal and real output and intermediate inputs, as well as growth accounting results, including estimates of TFP growth rates.
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/b000.html#0201
https://d-repo.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/?page=1&size=20&sort=controlnumber

Regional-Level Japan Industrial Productivity (R-JIP) Database

The R-JIP Database makes it possible to analyze the industrial structure of regions as well as regional disparities in productivity. Specifically, the database provides annual value-added output in current and constant prices, quality-adjusted labor input, and quality-adjusted capital input for all 23 industrial sectors by prefecture, as well as estimation results of differences in TFP levels across prefectures for each industry and of the rate of change in TFP for each industry in each prefecture.
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/b000.html#0202
https://d-repo.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/?page=1&size=20&sort=controlnumber

China Industrial Productivity (CIP) Database

Spanning the period from 1980-2010, the CIP Database consists of input-output table time series (in both nominal and real terms), investment and capital stock estimates, and capital and labor input indices for China for 37 sectors, making it possible to make comparisons with Japan.
https://d-infra.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/ltes/b000.html#0203

World KLEMS Database

This database was prepared by an international-cooperation project aiming to achieve a database to enable accurate measurement of industrial structures, and total-factor productivity at an industry level, in countries around the world. In cooperation with the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry's (RIETI) Industrial/Corporate Productivity Project, the RCESRR provides data on Japan (the JIP Database) and China (the CIP Database).
https://www.worldklems.net/wkhome

EU KLEMS Database

This database created by a project begun with the support of the European Commission is intended to enable international comparison of trends and levels in total-factor productivity at an industrial level. While centered on EU member states, research institutes in the United States and Japan also participate. In cooperation with the RIETI's Industrial/Corporate Productivity Project, the RCESRR provides data on Japan (the JIP Database) to the EU KLEMS Project, re-tabulated for EU KLEMS use.
https://www.euklems.eu

World Input-Output Database (WIOD)

The components of this database include time-series multilater al industrial-relations charts covering the period 1995-2014 for 40 countries, including Japan, China, the United States, and EU member states. In cooperation with the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)'s Industrial/Corporate Productivity Project, the RCESR provides data on Japan (the JIP Database) and China (the CIP Database), re-tabulated for WIOD use.
https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/valuechain/wiod/

East Asian Listed Companies [EALC] Database 2010

https://cei.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/publication/database.html
"EALC 2010 in principle targets all listed firms in Japan, China, and South Korea (not including the financial sector). It includes data necessary to measure total factor productivity at the company level and the periods covered are 1985 through 2007 for Japanese firms, 1985 through 2007 for South Korean firms, and 1999 through 2005 for Chinese firms.
Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) created the East Asian Listed Companies Database 2010 ("EALC 2010") along with the Center for Economic Institutions (CEI), the CENU Center for China and Asian Studies (CCAS; Professor Tomohiko Inui as project representative), and the Center for Corporate Competitiveness of Seoul National University (Professor Keun Lee as project representative). You can download the database and its explanation at the JCER Website.
http://www.jcer.or.jp/eng/research/database070528.html

2012 Database of Major Shareholders and Executives

Since 2006, the CEI has been building a large-scale, long-term database of the major shareholders and executives (directors and corporate auditors) of listed companies in Japan. Most data of major-shareholder were made available to the public in 2008, and the data on executives were made available to the public in 2010. These data can be used free of charge by researchers; the current 2012 version adds the results of various extensions and supplementary work. Connecting our database to the commercially available databases such as the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) and the Toyo Keizai Officers Quarterly (Yakuin Shikihou) provides access to information about the major shareholders and executives of all listed companies from 1950 (executives from 1962) to the present.
https://cei.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/publication/large_shareholderboard_members.html

Database on Direct Investment in Japan and Market Structure (Kyoji Fukao and Keiko Ito)

This research project is calculating the presence and market concentration of foreign-affiliated firms in all Japanese industries, by three-digit industry code, through totaling individual data from the 1996 Establishment and Enterprise Census. Data from the Establishment and Enterprise Census were totaled as a part of the research project on Japan's Potential Growth by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) of the Cabinet Office. See below for related data on subjects such as foreign direct investment by three-digit industry code, trade in services, and domestic direct investment by US industry classification.
● Activities and Market Concentration of Foreign-affiliated Firms: statistics by three-digit industry code based on individual data from the Establishment and Enterprise Census (PDF/78K) (in Japanese)
● Chart Data (XLS/801K) (in Japanese)

Post-war Japanese Prefecture Database (Kyoji Fukao and Ximing Yue)

These are the data used in the empirical analysis in Kyoji Fukao and Ximing Yue, "Regional Factor Inputs and Convergence in Japan: How Much Can We Apply Closed Economy Neoclassical Growth Models?" (The Economic Review, 51(2), in Japanese). If using these data, please be sure to cite Fukao and Yue (2000), as a reference and note the fact that Fukao and Yue's "Japanese Prefecture Database" was used.
● Data Preparation Methods (PDF/26K) (in Japanese): The data preparation methods included in the Addendum to Fukao and Yue (2000), please visit:
https://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/~fukao/japanese/data/fuken2000/datamaking.pdf
● Production by Prefecture (XLS/159K) (in Japanese): These data include real prefectural gross expenditure, private-sector capital stock, public-sector capital stock, employed workers, and human capital.
● Factor Trends (XLS/1337K) (in Japanese): Data needed to estimate capital movements and transfers of income by prefecture. Also see the sheet name and sheet data correspondence table (in Japanese).
https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/hermes/ir/re/19652/keizaikenkyu05102136.pdf

Funds Flow Accounts in Pre-war Japan (Shozaburo Fujino and Juro Teranishi)

This contains "Appendix: Prewar Balances of Financial Assets and Liabilities: 1871-1940," appended to Shozaburo Fujino and Juro Teranishi, Nihon Kin'yu no Suryo Bunseki (Quantitative Analysis of Financial Development in Japan), Toyo Keizai Shimposha, 2000). When citing the data in works, please clearly indicate the source in accordance with standard methods. If editing the data, please use a copy saved to a hard drive or other media, within the extent permitted under copyright law.
● Balances of Financial Assets and Liabilities (Annual) (621KB) (in Japanese)
● Sector Component Ratios (Time Series) (402KB) (in Japanese)
● Account Component Ratios (Time Series) (412KB) (in Japanese)
● Balances of Financial Assets and Liabilities by Sector (Time Series) (424KB) (in Japanese)

ICPSR (The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)

Since the Global Centers of Excellence (COE) program, the Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences (G-COE Hi-Stat), Hitotsubashi University has participated in the ICPSR domestic use council. This data archive is available for use by Hitotsubashi University faculty, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates. See here for more details.
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/

Global Listed/Unlisted Companies Database

As economic globalization advances worldwide, cooperation among companies also is taking on more of a global aspect. International comparison of the management organizations and performance of for-profit enterprises is essential to forecasting this trend. This database, based on information from Bureau van Dijk's Orbis, comprises data of approximately 400 million firms worldwide, including financial institutions. It is well suited for studying themes such as these as well as other research topics related to researching the enterprise.
https://www.bvdinfo.com/en-gb/

SRI-Hitotsubashi Consumer Purchase Index

SRI-Hitotsubashi consumer purchase indices are calculated based on the POS data of about 4000 stores, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, drug stores, and grocery discount stores. In SRI-Hitotsubashi consumer purchase indices, we break down changes in consumer expenditures into price, quantity, and the effect of product turnover, which are shown in "Consumer-purchase Expenditure Index", to see the change in the price of consumer purchases, which are shown in "Consumer-purchase Price Index", to see the change in the quantity of consumer purchases "Consumer-purchase Quantity Index", to see the effect of products turnover in consumer purchases, which are shown in "Consumer-purchase Turnover-effect Index". From May 2015, we also publish the "Consumer Price Per Purchase Index (provisional version; official version from January 2016)", which reflects the impact on prices of changes in the volume of products and the substitution of new products for old ones.
https://risk.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/nei/

Agricultural Household Survey

Progress is being made on converting completed survey forms (individual forms) from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Agricultural Household Survey during the prewar years. These survey forms include detailed information on subjects including the agricultural management conditions, consumption, assets, and working hours of individual farmers. These micro data can be used for fascinating research from the perspectives of Japanese economic history as well as empirical analysis of economic development. Preparation of a database on 1931-1941 panel data already is complete, and currently conversion of data for the years 1942-1948 to a database is underway. See the URL for more details.
https://rcisss.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/database/ahs.html

Databases

Database Guide/Data Access Services

Public Statistics/IER Database Collections

Long-Term Economic Statistics

Industrial/Corporate Databases etc.

SRI-Hitotsubashi Consumer Purchase Index

Household and Labor Statistics Data