Affiliations: Director for International Statistical Affairs, under Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Standards, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, 19-1, Wakamatsu cho, Shinjuku ku, Tokyo, 162-8668, Japan. Tel.: +81 3 5273 1145; E-mail: makita.naoki@nifty.com
Abstract: As the age of open data and data visualization arrives, the Statistics
Bureau of Japan and the National Statistics Center of Japan have released a new
geostatistics web service. Called jSTAT MAP, the web service can aggregate
data and produce choropleth maps based on small area statistics, whether
they may be census data or users' own data. jSTAT MAP has expanded horizons
for the integration of statistical and geospatial information and acquired a
new statistical user base in Japan. This paper describes the key elements of
jSTAT MAP and reports on the impact it has brought about on statistical
users.
Keywords: Web map service, small area statistics, statistics dissemination, open data