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Replication Data for: Municipality-level panel data and municipal mergers in Japan

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Title Replication Data for: Municipality-level panel data and municipal mergers in Japan
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HVD7OY
 
Creator Kondo, Keisuke
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper explains a method of constructing municipality-level panel data for Japan for the period of 1980–2020. Municipal mergers conducted around 2005, which are collectively known as "the Great Mergers in the Heisei era," resulted in a reduction of almost half of the number of Japanese municipalities. The significant changes in shapes of municipalities resulting from these municipal merges cause difficulties in constructing municipality-level panel data. To address this problem, this paper proposes a method of aggregating municipal districts from the past with geographical units that remain identical throughout the whole period.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Municipality-level panel data
Municipal merger
 
Language English
Japanese
 
Date 2023-11-17
 
Contributor Kondo, Keisuke