This program provides subsidies for expenses, to the extent feasible under the budget of the Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research, of up to a maximum of 100,000 yen per application, to persons less than 40 years of age who desire to become full-time researchers and to graduate students, in order to encourage the use by young researchers of anonymous government statistical data for which the Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University serves as the liaison for data provision. Eligible expenses consist of (1) a license fee for anonymous data paid to the National Statistics Center; (2) travel expenses for visiting the IER to pick up the anonymous data; (3) travel expenses and registration fees for presenting academic papers on research results using anonymous data at academic conferences; and (4) travel expenses or shipping fee for returning anonymous data.
Roughly 10 subsidies are planned for this fiscal year.
Download the prospectus and application form for this program from the prospectus webpage.
See the “Government Survey Micro Data webpage” of the Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science for details of the use of microdata from government statistics.
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• Programs accepted in fiscal 2020
• Programs accepted in fiscal 2019
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• Programs accepted in fiscal 2015
• Programs accepted in fiscal 2014
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