Deferral Rate
Share of executive answers containing deferral phrasing such as "we will consider it (kentou shimasu)", "we will study it (kenkyuu shimasu)", or "we will take it back (mochikaeri)".
INDICATORDeferral Rate
scope-macro · Quality of deliberation
Formula
Exact computation for Deferral Rate.
(Answers containing deferral phrasing) ÷ (Total answers for the council and period) × 100Coverage
The scope over which this indicator is measured.
Aggregated from answers recorded in councils whose minutes are indexed by KOUSOU 0.
What this indicator does not capture
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- False positives may occur — phrases like "we will not consider it (kentou shimasen)" are also detected.
- Difficulty and urgency of the underlying question are not weighted.
- Multiple answers on the same item are counted separately.
Reproducible SQL
SQL that reproduces the metric on BigQuery. Released under CC BY 4.0 (commercial use permitted), free to use for research and journalism.
SELECT
council_id,
COUNTIF(REGEXP_CONTAINS(content, r"検討します|研究します|持ち帰り")) / COUNT(*) AS sakiokuri_rate
FROM `{project}.{dataset}.speeches`
WHERE speech_type = "answer"
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