All 512 numbered tables are transcribed; the contents pages, the fold-out map and the three charts are not. Tables printed across both pages of a spread are joined into one, and long tables read in sections by different readers are joined. Printed totals were re-added by the readers: totals that do not add up are kept as printed and noted (many differ by a yen or two of rounding). Where a digit was ambiguous only between 3 and 8 and exactly one reading made a printed total reconcile, that reading is used and noted. The book's own errata slip (正誤, 35 corrections) is attached as a note to each table it concerns; the figures stay as printed. Small figures printed under a main figure with a marker such as (1) (e.g. 兼務, 朝鮮人) are written after it, as in "30 (1)1"; in a few tables these small figures were not transcribed, as each table's notes say. About 980 of some 177,000 figure cells could not be read and are marked [?]; a literal ? printed in the book is kept as ?. A spot check, in which a second model re-transcribed four tables (1,693 figures) independently, agreed on every digit.
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