Korea-Japan Workshop on the Industrial Productivity Database

Overview of the JIP Database
February 28, 2004

Kyoji FUKAO
Hyeog Ug KWON
Keisuke ORII

1. Background• The Japan Industry Productivity Database (JIPDatabase) was originally compiled as part ofthe ESRI (Economic and Social ResearchInstitute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
research project “Japan’s Potential Growth.”2. Documentation and Website• The details of the database are explained in
Fukao, Inui, Kawai, and Miyagawa, “SectoralProductivity and Economic Growth in Japan, 1970-98:
An Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database,”
forthcoming in Productivity and Growth: East Asia
Seminar on Economics Volume 13, in Takatoshi Itoand Andrew Rose eds., The University of Chicago
Press, 2004,
and“Sectoral Productivity and Economic Growth: 1970-98,”(in Japanese) Economic Analysis No. 170, ESRI, 2003.
• All data (English version) are downloadable for thetime being at
HI-STAT website, http://hi-stat.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/
and will become downloadable at
ESRI website, http://www.esri.go.jp/
as the ESRI-HISTAT JIP Database.

2. Ongoing Projects 1•HI-STAT project team and ESRI will
collaborate on
1. extension of the covered period from 1970-98
to 1970-2001 or 1970-2002.
2. revision from 1968 SNA base to 1993 SNAbase,and
3. revisions of labor input data and other data.

2. Ongoing Projects 2•

The HI-STAT project team and RIETI(Research Institute of Economy, Tradeand Industry) will collaborate on thecompilation of the RIETI Manufacturing
Database, which will contain annual
industry-level data on output,
employment, payroll and other input
costs, investment, capital stocks, TFP,and various industry-specific priceindexes.

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3. Overview of the JIP DatabaseThe JIP database contains annual inputoutput tables in nominal and real (1990)
prices as well as industry-level data on
capital stock, labor input, and otheradditional data.
Based on 1968 SNA. Computer software
is not included in capital input.
Land is not explicitly treated as a
production factor.

Table 1. Comparison of the JIP database, the KEO database, and various government statistics (National Accounts, SNA Input-Output tables, private capital st

Publishing organization

Deflator
Consistency with SNA
Produ Industry
ctionandPeriods
intermediate Estimation methodinputsDerivation of real values
Industry

JIP database

KEO database

National accounts, SNA Input-Output Table,
Private Capital Stock Statistics

Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet
Office, Government of Japan
Research project "Japan's Potential Growth"Institute for Economic and Industry Studies
Keio University

Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet
Office, Government of Japan, Department ofNational Accounts

1990 constant prices

1985 constant prices

Price of base year

NoYes

-National Accounts: 24 categories (table V), SNA
84 categories (including some categories of social 43 categories (including waste recycling, crude oil,
Input-Output Table: 89 categories (68SNA-based,capital)
natural gas, steel, other non-competing imports)
before 1980 there exist only 63 categories）
National Accounts: 1970 onwards;
1970, 1973-1998
1960-1995
SNA Input-Output Table: 1955, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80,
85-2000RAS
KEO-RASSNA Input-Output Table: RAS
Linked price indices of base years (1965, 1970,Linked real series of 1980, 1990, 1995 prices
Fixed price index for the entire period
1975, 1980, 1985) using the 1985 price index as
89 categories

43 categories

26 categories (23 categories for working hours)

2 categories (male, female)
2 categories (male, female)
15 categories(15- 11categories(15Age19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50- 19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 5054, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, 85-)
54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-)Cate
3 categories; Employees (regular employees +2 categories; Salaried employees (regulargorieexecutives), Self-employed (self-employeds
Status of employme employees + executives), Non-salaried employees
employing others + self-employed not employing
Labor(self-employed + family workers)others + home workers), Family workers
4 categories; Junior high school (formerly:4 categories; Junior high school (formerly:Elementary school); High school (formerly: Middle Elementary school); High school (formerly: MiddleEducational attainmschool); Higher professional school, Two-yearschool); Higher professional school, Two-yearcollege, or University undergraduate;college, or University undergraduate;
Period1960-1992
1970-2000
1970 onwards
Estimation method
KEO-RASRAS
Number of workers, Working hours, Labor
Data
Number of workers, Working hours, Wages
Number of workers, Working hours
compensation
84 categories (including some categories of social
CateIndustry
categories (including some categories of social cap
29 categoriesgoriecapital)s
Capital goods
78 categories
37 categories (capital goods categories of BEA)
Periods
1970-1998
1955-92
1955 onwards
CapitaEstimated using information on replacement andEstimated based on National Wealth Survey
Treatment of fixed capital
lDepreciation rate used by BEA
loss in Financial Statements Statistics of(1960) and National Wealth Survey (1970).
depreciation
Corporations
Depreciation rates of some assets are newly
Definition of capital stock
Net capital stock
Net capital stock
Gross capital stock
KEO-RAS(DoubleEstimation method
RAS, Single Benchmark year method
Double benchmark year method; other methods
benchmark) perpetual inventory method
Sex

Supplementary tables

Trade statistics by industry and country; Inward
and outward direct investment statistics; Service
trade statistics by industry; Statistics on market
structure, regulations, price differentials between
import and domestic prices; Index of capacity
utilization rate; R&D stock and cost of R&D stock-