한국의 서비스무역 통계 개선 방안 연구(A Study on Updating Korea’s Services Trade Statistics System)

본 보고서는 우리나라 서비스무역 통계 개선방향을 제시하기 위하여 작성되었다. 궁극적으로는 개선된 데이터를 통해 우리나라 서비스무역에 대한 이해를 제고하고, 서비스 무역정책 수립에 기여하고자 함이 목적이다. 이를 위하여 본 보고서에서는 국제적인 서비스무역 통계 관련 논의 진행상황, 국내 정책적 수요, 통계 개선을 위한 데이터의 가용성을 근거로 우리나라 서비스무역 통계 개선방향을 단기ㆍ중기ㆍ 장기 의제로 구분하고, 각 의제별 개선방향에 대하여 연구하였다. This report aims to provide directions for improving Korea’s service trade statistics. Ultimately, the purpose is to enhance the understanding of Korea’s service trade and contribute to the establishment of service trade policies through improved data. To this end, the report categorizes Korea’s service trade statistics into short-, medium-, and long-term agendas based on the progress of discussions on international service trade statistics, domestic policy demand, and data availability for statistical improvement, and studies each agenda. Chapter 2 first look at the historical discussions regarding the definition of services in economics, and the definition of service supply modes stipulated in trade agreements such as the GATS. Modern service trade statistics collected on the balance of payments are compared with suggested statistics by mode of service supply under the GATS. Based on these discussions, the report presents two considerations for improvements from the perspective of services statistics construction. First, it is necessary to put an effort to converge the classification of the balance of payments to the CPC. Second, statistics by mode of supply defined in services trade agreements need to be reflected in the collection of balance of payments statistics, currently aggregated without distinction by mode of supply. Chapter 3 discusses how to convert trade statistics by service sector on the balance of payments, which is a transaction standard, into industrial standard service trade statistics such as the Korea Standard Industry Classification. The convergence to activity-based classification is helpful in setting out policy directions at the industry level, and matching with other activity-nased statistics, e.g. foreign direct investments, which are readily prepared based on the Korean standard industry classification. In Chapter 3, service trade statistics from the balance of payments are reclassified according to the Korea Standard Industry Classification. (the rest omitted)