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How to go beyond BPM in SITS

October 1-3, 2008

Shin-Tsyr JingAssociate Research Fellow

Chung-Hwa Institution for Economic Research

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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

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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 international receipts increased to US$30,642 million, and service international payments rose to US$36,068 million

However, we do not have separate transaction data with other countries in details

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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

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Experiments on Compiling Statistics for the GATS Modes of Supply

Pick up the target sectorsFind the populationCollect the current available information of st

atisticsClarification of service industry classification Survey Questionnaire ContentSample SelectionTrade in Services Statistics Instruction Manua

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Pick up the target sectorsFind the population

Pick up the target sectorsTelecommunications, insurance and maritime service sec

torsLicenses and highly regulation It is relatively easy to survey them with the help from the

government authorities

Find the populationThe DGBAS in Chinese Taipei － update the population

of all industries once for 5 yearsEach government authority － collects specific service-s

ector’s population

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Collect available statisticsClarification of service industry classification

Collect the current available information of statisticsCapital, foreign capital share, revenues, expenses,

sale, etc from all possible sources Import/export data not available

Clarification of service industry classificationBuild a correspondence table － GNS/W/120 com

ponents and our standard service industry components

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Survey Questionnaire Content

Survey Questionnaire ContentBasic informationBusiness, 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

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Sample Selection

Sample SelectionSpecial permission service sectors － the method

of complete surveyOthers － 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

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Instruction Manual

Trade in Services Statistics Instruction Manual Trade in services statistics instruction manualManual content

• Introduction

• Clarification of service industry classification

• Inspection of the existing official business statistical data

• Investigation action program

• Analyses of survey results

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