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Advancing Service Industry Statistics for Trade and Policy: Insights from SITS 2008

This presentation discusses the essential role of the service industry in economic development and employment in Chinese Taipei. It highlights the urgent need for comprehensive statistics to aid trade negotiators and policymakers, as current data is insufficient. Over three years, experiments have been conducted to compile relevant statistics, focusing on key sectors like telecommunications and insurance. The study emphasizes the innovative approaches taken to survey these industries, clarify service sector classifications, and gather accurate data to inform better decision-making in trade and economic policies.

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Advancing Service Industry Statistics for Trade and Policy: Insights from SITS 2008

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  1. How to go beyond BPM in SITS Shin-Tsyr Jing Associate Research Fellow Chung-Hwa Institution for Economic Research October 1-3, 2008

  2. Purposes • Service industry plays important roles in economic development and employment in Chinese Taipei • We do not have sufficient statistics for the needs of trade negotiators and policy markers • In order to break through this predicament, we did some experiments in past three years • That is what I want to talk about today

  3. Background Information 1 • In 2007, service industry output reached NT$8.9 trillion (roughly US$ 272.3 billions), accounting for 71.1% of GDP • Service industry job-creation level is 5.96 millions jobs, accounting for 57.9% of total employment • Production in the services industry grew 4.3 percent in 2007 • Service internationalreceipts increased to US$30,642 million, and service internationalpayments rose to US$36,068 million • However, we do not have separate transaction data with other countries in details

  4. Background Information 2 • Central Bank－ collects 11 service sectors and some sub-sectors statistics, but insufficient for the needs of trade negotiations & policy markers • The Investment Commission of the Ministry of Economic Affairs－collects FDI statistics, not collect the domestic sales by foreign affiliates • The Bureau of Employment and Vocational Training, Council of Labor Affairs－ collects short-term employment of foreign staff statistics

  5. Experiments on Compiling Statistics for the GATS Modes of Supply • Pick up the target sectors • Find the population • Collect the current available information of statistics • Clarification of service industry classification • Survey Questionnaire Content • Sample Selection • Trade in Services Statistics Instruction Manual

  6. Pick up the target sectorsFind the population • Pick up the target sectors • Telecommunications, insurance and maritime service sectors • Licenses and highly regulation • It is relatively easy to survey them with the help from the government authorities • Find the population • The DGBAS in Chinese Taipei－update the population of all industries once for 5 years • Each government authority－collects specific service-sector’s population

  7. Collect available statisticsClarification of service industry classification • Collect the current available information of statistics • Capital, foreign capital share, revenues, expenses, sale, etc from all possible sources • Import/export data not available • Clarification of service industry classification • Build a correspondence table－GNS/W/120 components and our standard service industry components

  8. Survey Questionnaire Content • Survey Questionnaire Content • Basic information • Business, investment, and employment statistics • sales/purchases in total and countries, FDI, gross operating revenues/expenses in subsidiaries and branches abroad, total number of employees/total employee compensation • Opening questions • work content and title of foreign employees, investment barriers, needs of the government assistance

  9. Sample Selection • Sample Selection • Special permission service sectors－the method of complete survey • Others－the method of sampling survey • Current available data • Program of the Chi-sqare Automatic Interaction Detection, CHAID, to divide the population into a set of target groups • Proportionate quota sampling • Field workers interview

  10. Instruction Manual • Trade in Services Statistics Instruction Manual • Trade in services statistics instruction manual • Manual content • Introduction • Clarification of service industry classification • Inspection of the existing official business statistical data • Investigation action program • Analyses of survey results

  11. Thank you

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