Databases　-2021

Program for Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University is carrying out a project related to government statistics, as a contracted project under the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science program Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Through achievements including development of a database of government statistical data covering the long term, development of metadata such as information on survey questionnaires, and organization of aggregated data from government statistical questionnaires and related processing technologies (e.g., tailor-made aggregation, historical statistics, industrial structure databases, and databases for international comparison), as well as translation of these data to English and publishing them domestically and internationally while also improving the usability of individual data, this project will develop a comprehensive system to promote the use and utilization by the domestic and international research communities of government statistical data and other aggregated and processed data.

Hi-Stat Social Science Database Network

As part of the data access services, the Hi-Stat Social Science Database Network presented databases created and collected by the Global COE Program "Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences" and the Institute of Economic Research Library at Hitotsubashi University. The contents have been handed over to the Hitotsubashi University base of "Program for Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences" from 2018.

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

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest data archive for collecting and maintaining micro-data from past research undertaken in the social sciences. Hitotsubashi University is a member of the ICPSR Japanese National Membership as part of its Global COE Program, the "Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences."
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Japan Industrial Productivity (JIP) Database

Data for the analysis of Japan's productivity and industrial structure
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China Industrial Productivity (CIP) Database 2011

・CIP 2011 (March 2012) [Link to RIETI web page]

Asian Historical Statistics (ASHSTAT) Database

Database providing economic statistics (especially GDP estimates) for Asian countries from the beginning of the 20th century onward
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Asian Monetary Unit (AMU) and AMU Deviation Indicators

Database on Asian currency exchange rates constructed to explore the feasibility of an Asian monetary union
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China's Long-Term International Trade Statistics: By Commodity

Long-term international trade statistics by commodity for prewar China; available for the first time anywhere through cooperation with the National Bureau of Statistics of China
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Processed Economic Statistics Series

Reference data for the quantitative economic historical research conducted at the Institute of Economic Research (IER), such as the LTES
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The following databases are currently available only in Japanese.

Japanese Prefecture Database

Database providing estimates of gross prefectural products and prefectural industrial structures from the 19th century onward
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Database on FDI and Market Structure in Japan

More industry-level database for the analysis of Japan's inward and outward FDI and market structure
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Long-Term Economic Statistics (LTES) Database

Database providing estimates of Japan's GDP and related statistics from the Meiji period onward constructed under the leadership of Simon Kuznets and Kazushi Ohkawa
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