Evidence-backed facts
- The e-Stat API provides machine-readable functions for official statistics lists, table data, metadata, datasets, and database navigation in XML, JSON, and CSV representations. informative
- Use requires an e-Stat account and application ID; that identifier is a credential and must remain outside public resource files and logs. informative
- Clients must bind statistics identifiers, table or dataset identifiers, classifications, filters, language, limit, start position, and output representation and follow result totals. informative
- Official Japanese statistics can be preliminary, revised, suppressed, estimated, methodology-dependent, or language-specific and do not prove individual circumstances. informative