12 Dec 2002

Japan Statistical Year Book (Nihon Tokei Nenkan) 2002
Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Communications, Tokyo, Japan.
Self-description: "The Japan Statistical Yearbook is the comprehensive and systematic summary of basic statistical information of Japan covering wide-ranging fields such as Land, Population, Economy, Society, Culture, and so on. This [2002] yearbook covers all fields of statistics published by government and private organizations. This volume contains 25 fields and about 649 tables, includes explanation about data sources and survey method of each statistics."
Site contents: Explanatory Notes; 1 Land and Climate; 2 Population and Households; 3 Labour and Wages; 4 National Accounts; 5 Business Activities; 6 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; 7 Mining and Manufacturing; 8 Construction; 9 Energy and Water; 10 Transport and Communications; 11 Domestic Trade and Services; 12 Foreign Trade, Balance of Payments and International Cooperation; 13 Finance and Insurance; 14 Public Finance; 15 Prices and Land Values; 16 Family Income and Expenditure; 17 Housing and Estate; 18 Social Security; 19 Health and Sanitation; 20 Education; 21 Science, Technology and Culture; 22 Government Employees and Elections; 23 Justice and Police; 24 Disasters and Accidents; 25 Comparative International Statistics.
[The tr-lingual site (JP,KR,EN), Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center (www.stat.go.jp), also publishes:
Population Census; Establishment and Enterprise Census; Current Population Estimates; Labour Force Survey; Family Income and Expenditure Survey; Consumer Price Index; Monthly Statistics of Japan; Statistical Handbook of Japan; Economic and Financial Data for Japan;
and the latest statistics, including: Family Income and Expenditure Survey (Two-or-more-persons Households) (Oct 2002, All Households); Labour Force Survey (Oct 2002); Consumer Price Index (Nov 2002, Ku-area of Tokyo (preliminary) / Oct 2002, Japan); Population Estimates (Nov 2002). The data files are available online in PDF and/or Excel formats. - ed.]
URL http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/nenkan/index.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the English section of the site was not archived at the time of this abstract; the Japanese section is available from http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.stat.go.jp/]
Link reported by: Toshio Takagi (Toshio.Takagi@anu.edu.au), forwarded by asialib@mailman.anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3000