著者

溝口 敏行 野島 教之

出版者

一般社団法人 日本統計学会

雑誌

日本統計学会誌 (ISSN:03895602)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, no.1, pp.91-107, 1993 (Released:2009-01-22)

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As a part of research on historical statistics, we have reliable data on National Accounts Statistics since the late of 19th century. The LTES project of Hitotsubashi University estimated the data from 1885 to 1940. The Economic Planning Agency published the post-1955 data based on the system advised by UNSO. While the national income estimates were published for the period from 1941 to 1954 by the Economic Planning Agency in the late 1950s, the figures must be examined carefully because the basic data were less reliable owing to the confounded situation of Japan in the wartime and just after the end of war.This paper tries to obtain relatively reliable level of nominal and real GDP on this period. While the nominal GDP was estinated by the Government of Japan, the statistical discrepancy was very large between the estimates from the production, the expenditure and the distribution side. Judging from the conditions of basic data, we selected the figures from the distribution side for the wartime period (1940-44) and linked them to LTES estimates, The post-1941 nominal income were obtained from the expenditure side estimates with some adjustments on the private consumption. This was linked to post-1955 data mentioned before.The real GDP are calculated from the quantitative data of production. Since the original data for agriculture and industry did not cover the transaction of underground market, they would have some downward biases and we tried to adjust this biases as far as possible. The production of tertial industry is estimated by two different ways. The quantitative figures are used for the transportation, the construction and the public services. The nominal data in the National Income Statistics are deflated for other sectors. The final results are shown in Table 14.