Frontier studies of statistical and public policy research on social capital

本研究主要针对两个目的：分析其经济/社会影响;检视与评估其政策意义;基于对社会资本的定量分析和统计理解，通过对研究结果的分析，提出了定量把握社会资本这一抽象概念的方法，提出了一套新的社会资本指标体系，这一研究的重要成果是认识到了社会资本在日本社会中的特殊性，而这一点在当时还没有得到充分的阐明。此外，它还取得了这些额外的结果：理解理论和实证建议，考虑到不同主题之间的关系，对社会资本的政策;分类社会资本的价值和主题，以审查或主题的政策含义。

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.