| Description |
The test survey is conducted in order to seek the way of utilizing new data sources for one of the official statistics: the Current Survey of Commerce (part 2), the fundamental statistics survey under the Statistics Act. The test survey puts its focus on clarifying the trends in sales activities of large-scale speciality retailers for home electric appliances, by accessing big data, represented by scanner data (Point Of Sales data, hereinafter referred to as "POS data"). Viewing to put this alternative methodology into practical use, operation of official statistics' production shall be examined from long-term perspective. With the aim of acquiring knowledge to take further measures for the enhancement of official statistics, the test survey is likely to determine the feasibility of efficiency improvement mainly by reducing operation burdens of survey objects, of early publication attainment, furthermore, of grasping precise business confidence by means of subdividing outputs of statistical survey. |
