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Japan – Sixty-one percent of people believe the Abe administration’s handling of the statistics-gathering scandal to find the truth was inadequate, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.
Even among supporters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the rate of respondents who said the response was inappropriate was 49 percent, according to the survey results, released Feb. 18.
Among those who do not support any political parties, the corresponding figure was 64 percent.
The Asahi Shimbun conducted the nationwide telephone poll on Feb. 16 and 17 on the labor ministry’s questionable data-gathering methods and other issues.
It was revealed in December that the ministry had used erroneous data-gathering methods since 2004 for the Monthly Labor Survey. The botched data resulted in the short-changing of about 20 million beneficiaries of more than 55 billion yen ($496.8 million) in social insurance benefits.
The survey asked respondents whether their trust in government statistics was eroded by the scandal, with 67 percent saying yes, and 21 percent saying no.
Source and full English article: The Asahi Shimbun
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902190053.html
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