Frontier studies of statistical and public policy research on social capital

本研究主要关注两个对象：分析经济/社会影响；考察和评估政策的意义；基于对社会资本的量化分析和统计理解。通过研究的结果，发展了一些方法来定量地把握抽象的社会资本概念，提出了一套新的社会资本指数，使其能够进行实证分析。本研究的重要成果是理解了社会资本对日本社会的特殊性质，但到目前为止还没有得到充分的澄清。此外，它还取得了这些额外的成果；理解了考虑社会资本政策不同主体之间的关系的理论和经验建议；对社会资本的价值和要审查的主题或政策影响的主题进行了分类。

This research primarily focused on two objects; to analyze the economic/social impact; to examine and assess the signification on policies; based on quantitative analysis and statistical understanding of social capital.Through the outcomes of the study , some methods were developed to grasp quantitatively an abstract concept of social capital presenting a new set of index of social capital, which enabled it to conduct the empirical analysis.The important accomplishment of this research is the comprehension of the peculiar nature of social capital to Japanese society, while it had not been clarified adequately up to that time. Furthermore, it achieved these additional results; understanding of theoretical and empirical suggestions considering the relation between diverse subjects for policies towards social capital; classifying both the value of social capital for a society and themes to examine or topics on policy implications.