Title The Changing Nature of Service Sectors.pdf ✅

Geography Digest 2018 Issue 2: Article 3 © 2018 Curriculum Planning and Development Division 27 Table 3.3: Classifying different types of service activities (Source: Bryson 2016: 347) Consumer services Services for final end users (e.g. retailers, opticians, hotels) Producer and business services Intermediate inputs into activities of other organisations (e.g. banking, advertising, design) Public services Provided directly by the state or indirectly by private sector (e.g. electricity, water, public transportation) Not-for-profit organisations Providing services beyond the confines of the state (e.g. health clinics, legal advice, charities) Informal services Service activities provided by unpaid workers (e.g. domestic work at home) or not recorded in formal economic accounts (e.g. casual workers, illegal workers) Figure 3.1: Dramatic growth of service-producing industries in Singapore over the past 50 years (Source; Department of Statistics Singapore)