Data

JIP Database 2006

The Japan Industrial Productivity Database 2006 (JIP 2006) was compiled in a collaboration between RIETI as part of its "Study on Industry-Level and Firm-Level Productivity in Japan" research project and Hitotsubashi University as part of its Hi-Stat (21st-Century COE Program, "Research Unit for Statistical Analysis in the Social Sciences") project. The original version of the JIP Database (ESRI/Hi-Stat JIP Database 2003) was compiled through collaboration between the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Cabinet Office, Government of Japan as part of its research project on "Japan's Potential Growth" and the Hitotsubashi University Hi-Stat project. The authors are grateful to ESRI for its support and cooperation on the JIP 2006 project.

The JIP 2006 contains annual data on 108 sectors from 1970-2002 that can be used for total factor productivity (TFP) analyses. These sectors cover the whole Japanese economy. The database includes detailed information on sectoral capital service input indices and labor service input indices, including information on real capital stocks and the nominal cost of capital by type of capital and by industry, annual nominal, and real input-output tables, as well as some supplementary tables, such as statistics on trade, inward and outward FDI, and Japan's industrial structure. All real values are based on 1995 prices.

For scholars familiar with the JIP 2003, there are some main similarities of and differences between the 2006 and 2003 versions of the JIP.

1. The JIP 2003 is based on the 1968 System of National Accounts (SNA), while the JIP 2006 is based on the 1993 SNA. The capital stock of the JIP 2006 includes order-made software, plant engineering, and assets accumulated by the search for minerals. The JIP 2003 uses SNA statistics as control totals. Following Japan's present SNA statistics, capital stock in the preliminary version of the JIP 2006 does not include prepackaged and in-house software. JIP 2006 includes two sets of statistics; one in which capital stock does not include prepackaged and in-house software (consistent with Japan's present SNA statistics) and one in which it does.

2. In the case of the JIP 2006, labor input data include detailed information on labor input cross-classified by categories of labor.

JIP 2006 was compiled by the following scholars.

Annual input-output tables

FUKAO Kyoji (Hitotsubashi University)
KWON Hyeog Ug (Nihon University)

Capital service input data

MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Gakushuin University)
INUI Tomohiko (Nihon University)
HAMAGATA Sumio (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
ORII Keisuke (Keiai University)

Labor input data

TOKUI Joji (Shinshu University)
MAKINO Tatsuji (Graduate School of Chuo University)
TAKAHASHI Yoko (JSPS Research Fellow)

Supplementary tables

ITO Keiko (Senshu University)
NAKANISHI Yasuo (Senshu University)
MATSUURA Toshiyuki (RIETI Fellow)
MURAKAMI Yukako (Hitotsubashi University COE Research associate)

Documentation

The details of the database are explained in
Kyoji Fukao, Sumio Hamagata, Tomohiko Inui, Keiko Ito, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Tatsuji Makino, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Yasuo Nakanishi, Joji Tokui
"Estimation Procedures and TFP Analysis of the JIP Database 2006," RIETI Discussion Paper January 2007 07-E-003

The details of the ESRI/Hi-Stat JIP Database 2003 are explained in
Fukao, Inui, Kawai, and Miyagawa, "Sectoral Productivity and Economic Growth in Japan, 1970-98: An Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database," in Growth and Productivity in East Asia, National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics, Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose (eds.), The University of Chicago Press, 2004,
A PDF version of the paper is downloadable at
http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/~fukao/japanese/publication/paper/2004/2004-53.pdf
and
"Sectoral Productivity and Economic Growth: 1970-98," (in Japanese) Economic Analysis No. 170, ESRI, 2003.
More information on the database is available at the web site of the HI-STAT project.
http://hi-stat.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/index.html

Contact Information

Please direct requests and inquiries concerning reproduction to:
RIETI JIP Database Group
e-mail: jip-info@rieti.go.jp

Please direct inquiries concerning the results release schedule and estimation methodology to:
JIP Database Room, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
e-mail: jip-info@ier.hit-u.ac.jp