In December last year, Japan made a drastic downward revision to its quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) for July-September, while in fiscal 2008, an estimation ...

In early 2019 problems with Japan's Monthly Labor Survey were revealed, drawing attention to the trustworthiness and role of statistical data. Serving on the Statistics Commission, the author of this ...

TOKYO -- As the so-called sharing economy is fast taking hold around the globe, conventional economic statistics, such as gross domestic product, are becoming unable to reflect the realities of a ...

GDP（国内総生産）とは？ 「GDP」とは、国内で一定期間に生み出されたモノ・サービス・財などの付加価値の合計金額を表した、その国の経済規模を表すデータです。「Gross Domestic Product」の頭文字をとった略称で、日本語では「国内総生産」と呼びます。