The Gender Statistics Database by National Women's Education Center of Japan (NWEC) provides 423 statistical tables to show the situation of Japanese women and men in their daily living. It lays emphasis on showing the differences and similarities between women and men.
The tables in the database are divided into 11 categories and most of them are originally from statistical data by government ministries and agencies. All the tables are provided in excel format.
No |
Category |
Tables |
1 |
Population |
33 |
2 |
Household and family |
61 |
3 |
Labour |
73 |
4 |
Time use and unpaid work |
29 |
5 |
Household budget and property |
29 |
6 |
Learning and education |
26 |
7 |
Social security and welfare |
55 |
8 |
Health |
29 |
9 |
Security and crime |
26 |
10 |
Decision-making |
37 |
11 |
Consciousness survey |
25 |
Brief history of the Database
1997 |
The Statistic Database on Women and Family was released via the personal computer communication. It was a result of a four-year research project on statistics on women and family. |
Jan. 1999 |
The Database was put on the Internet and provided in excel format. |
May 2002 |
Women's Information Thesaurus developed by NWEC was installed into the Database to improve efficiency in retrieval. |
2003 |
The name of the Database was changed to Gender Statistics Database and the improvement was made based on recommendations by a research project on gender statistics. |