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Municipality-level Panel Data and Municipal Mergers in Japan

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  • KONDO Keisuke

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This paper explains a method of constructing municipality-level panel data for Japan for the period of 1980–2020. Municipal mergers conducted in the mid-2000s, 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 administrative borders resulting from these municipal merges cause difficulties in constructing municipality-level panel data. To address this problem, this paper proposes a method of aggregating municipalities as a collective geographical unit that remains identical over decades.

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  • KONDO Keisuke, 2023. "Municipality-level Panel Data and Municipal Mergers in Japan," Discussion papers 23901, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:dpaper:23901
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