Abstract
1. In this chapter, focusing the points on those issues as statistical organization and legislation on which the government statistical undertaking is based, the survey restricts itself only to the academic achievements. As far as the institutional system of official statistics is discussed from a standpoint of its fundamental role for statistics based on questionnaires, it crosses each other with theory of statistical survey. On the contrary an issue is raised on the need of expanded theory of statistical system which covers statistics based upon administrative records or registers in addition to those based on questionnaires. As a result of the survey, a few subjects of future researches are suggested.
2. In this chapter, we examined the problems about government statistical surveys caused by the changes in the modes of life and economic activities of thier respondents. Then the new developments of statistical techniques and statistical classification practices brought about by the diversification and the globalization of economic activities of Japanese enterprises in recent years are reviewed. Lastly the growing difficulties of the fieldwork of statistical surveys such as non-responses and non-cooperation of their respondents reflecting in the various surveys are summarized.
3. Treatise on data has been extensively discussed with the problems on the statistical survey system. This chapter reviews new developments in dataology and refers to the statistical database construction.
