rieti discussion paper series 07 e 003 estimation procedures and tfp analysis of the jip database 2006 provisional version kyoji fukao hitotsubashi university sumio hamagata tomohiko inui nihon keiko ito senshu hyeog ug kwon tatsuji makino tsutomu miyagawa gakushuin yasuo nakanishi joji tokui shinshu january 2007 papers aims at widely disseminating research results in form professional thereby stimulating lively views expressed are solely those author s do not present institute economy trade industry 1 introduction purpose this is to explain preliminary newly compiled japan industrial productivity report some our growth accounting based on contains information 108 sectors from 1970 2002 that can be used for total factor analyses these cover whole japanese was as part project study level firm original