KOSTAT Statistics Korea : The Index of Services in November 2016

The Index of Services in November 2016

• In November, the Index of Services grew by 0.1 percent month-on-month owing to the increase in 'Financial and insurance activities' and 'Professional, scientific and technical activities' in spite of the decrease in 'Information and communications' and 'Wholesale and retail trade'.

  • In November, the Index of Services went up by 2.5 percent year-on-year owing to the rise in 'Financial and insurance activities' and 'Human health and social work activities' in spite of the drop in 'Accommodation and food service activities' and 'Information and communications'.

(Volume, year-on-year, %)

Classification		2015			2016
		Nov.	3/4	Annual	2/4	3/4	Sep.	Oct.p	Nov.p
Industry Section	Index of Services1)	3.0	2.9	2.8	3.7	3.6	2.6	2.2	2.5
	- Seasonally Adjusted Index over the Previous Month (Quarter)	0.0	1.2	-	1.6	0.8	-0.8	-0.3	0.1
	Wholesale and retail trade	4.0	1.4	1.7	4.2	2.8	0.5	1.6	2.4
	Transportation	-0.2	0.7	1.4	4.2	3.5	-1.1	-3.7	-0.6
	Accommodation and food service activities	-1.6	-3.5	-2.0	1.9	0.9	-2.0	-2.3	-3.7
	Information and communications	0.8	0.3	-0.6	5.1	0.9	1.7	1.6	-1.1
	Financial and insurance activities	6.1	10.1	9.0	4.3	6.5	8.2	6.5	7.2
	Real estate activities and renting and leasing	5.9	11.1	8.1	-0.5	4.1	3.6	4.1	5.4
	Professional, scientific and technical activities	-0.8	1.1	-0.4	0.9	-3.6	-4.0	-5.2	-1.4
	Business facilities management and business support services	5.8	2.4	3.9	1.9	3.7	3.0	0.6	1.0
	Education	1.4	0.0	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.8
	Human health and social work activities	6.8	5.4	6.2	8.7	12.6	10.5	11.8	8.8
	Arts, sports and recreation related services	-1.2	-1.7	1.1	7.1	4.3	5.5	0.5	-0.1
	Membership organizations, repair and other personal services	1.8	0.3	-0.5	-0.7	-2.0	-2.9	-1.3	-0.6
	Sewerage, waste management, materials recovery and remediation activities	3.5	12.2	7.2	5.6	-0.8	0.9	0.5	13.0
Index of Services by Alternative Aggregation	Information and communication technology	0.3	2.6	0.3	3.8	-0.2	2.3	2.6	-1.1
	Tourism	1.2	-1.1	0.0	3.0	3.2	1.7	0.6	-0.6
	Environment	-5.8	1.4	-0.1	0.4	-2.5	-0.4	-2.4	4.8
	Distribution	-2.0	1.6	0.0	5.1	1.2	-3.3	-4.3	-2.3
	Sport	3.5	-2.1	0.5	8.5	3.9	3.1	0.7	-0.2
	Content	3.1	0.5	0.4	3.7	2.0	1.8	1.8	1.6
	Copyright	1.9	1.0	0.7	4.2	2.7	0.8	0.0	0.6
	Spatial information	0.7	1.9	0.5	3.0	-0.5	2.0	2.6	-1.1

Note) 1. The indexes of the recent two months are preliminary ones.