Microdata will be reinforced and improvements will be made on model operation in the fields of trade, pensions, energy, and the environment. This will strengthen the necessary infrastructure for RIETI's research.
1. RIETI Data Management Project
Project Leader
TOMITA Hideaki, Research Coordinator
Adviser
Overview
The data in RIETI's possession can be categorized as follows: data available at relatively low cost, which research institutions would ordinarily be expected to have on hand; large-scale data sets purchased by individual research projects for use in their research; and data generated by these research projects (including the results of questionnaire surveys). The purpose of this project is to develop infrastructure for facilitating the more efficient utilization of these datasets by users. An additional purpose of this project is to serve as a forum for active discussion of related topics within RIETI, with an eye to considering the possibility as well as methods to make these datasets available to both researchers and the public at large as a source of new knowledge.
Having accumulated considerable expertise in handling microdata being in the possession of METI, we will also try to create convertors for statistics data matching that enable researchers to quickly access and analyze microdata. By enhancing our handling of data, we will be better equipped to deal with the new Statistics Act and improve the existing value and uniqueness of RIETI.
2. Research and Development for Next Generation Energy Statistics and for Analytical Systems of Supply and Demand Trends
Project Leader
Overview
General Energy Statistic for Fiscal Year 2005 and Energy Balances by prefectures for Fiscal 2006, both developed by the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), are currently used as official statistics to provide a basis for national energy and environmental policies. However, in recent years, the government has launched new statistical research initiatives to develop statistics on energy consumption in the tertiary industry and statistics on automobile fuel consumption in the transportation sector, whereby a solid and reliable data foundation is being built to enable further improvement of estimation methods. Against this backdrop, RIETI will develop next-generation comprehensive energy statistics and a supply-demand analysis system for adoption in 2012 when the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol ends.
3. Other research results in Adjacent Basic Research Areas C
Project Leader
Major Research Results
RIETI Discussion Papers
- "Assessment of Policies of Local Public Corporations to Improve Business Efficiency - The Case of Niigata Prefecture's Bureau of Public Enterprise Management Reform Program (Industrial Water Project and Electricity Project) - " (KAINOU Kazunari)
- "Quantitative Assessment and Analysis of the Household Electricity Rates System" (KAINOU Kazunari)
- "Household Consumption and Long-Term Structural Changes in Regional Retail and Service Industries" (KAINOU Kazunari)
*These project titles are provisional. They are translated from their original Japanese titles and are subject to change.
