Chính sách kinh tế Abenomics chịu sức ép vì gian lận số liệu

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Tokyo is reeling (quay cuồng, lảo đảo, loạng choạng) from a scandal involving skewed data (dữ liệu sai lệch) that has upended official readings of the economy and cast doubt on a pillar of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic program.

The labor ministry is required (được yêu cầu) to collect data (thu thập dữ liệu) from all companies with 500 or more employees for its Monthly Labor Survey. But from 2004 to 2017, it surveyed only about one-third of these large businesses in Tokyo. Because large companies typically pay more than smaller ones, the undercounting dragged down wage estimates  (ước tính tiền lương) across the country.

The ministry has acknowledged that the faulty survey data cost 19.7 million people about 53.7 billion yen ($490 million) in unpaid benefits. That, plus updates to the ministry's computer systems to correct the problem, will raise the cost of the foul-up to about 79.5 billion yen.

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