Citation

Takarabe S. The Kyoto University economic review 1926; 1(1): 173-187.

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(Copyright © 1926)

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Abstract

There are two official sources of statistical information regarding suicides in Japan; the one· is the data collected by the Imperial Statistical Bureau and the other those collected by the Home Office. The former gets reports from various official registration records, such as Koseki (a special Japanese institution, regarding the family system and the registration of births, deaths, marriages and divorces), notices of death ordered by the law of Kosek~ diagnosis of mortality by physicians, reports on the inquests of dead bodies by the police. These reports are changed to lists of deaths, including information on the cause of death, by local registrar's offices and then delivered to the Imperial Statistical Bureau. Thus the Imperial Statistical Bureau inquire suicides according to the method of central abstraction of these lists. The latter's data are provided by the statistics of suicide, made up by the local police stations throughout the country, according to the method of distributive abstraction of the material.

Publisher: 国立大学法人 京都大学大学院経済学研究科

Language: en