Page 283 - Special Topic Session (STS) - Volume 4

STS587 Shujian X. et al.
often in non-monetary form. The OECD studies (2018) point out that digital
transactions are a key factor in identifying the digital economy. They can be
defined by three dimensions: digitally ordered, platform enabled and digitally
delivered.
Using the methodologies mentioned above, the results below will firstly
present the main problems and solutions in the digital economy, as shown in
Table 1. After that, specific details on the comparison of classifications will be
illustrated to bridge the gap between general conceptual framework of
satellite account and statistical practices.

3. Results
3.1 Mismeasurement problems and solutions in digital satellite account
As Table 1 shows, there are mainly 10 problems faced in the research of
digital economy. This paper classified the common solutions and proposes
suggestions for China’s Digital Economy Satellite Account in order to better
measure the structure of China’s Digital Economy.

Table 1: Main accounting issues and corresponding design ideas around the
framework
Main problems facing Major solutions Ideas of China's Digital
digital Economy

The definition of concept
economic accounting -IMF: Based on the digital Based on generalized digital
Satellite Account
Framework
and accounting scope of department transactions (including
digital economy exchange, transfer and
-OECD: Based on digital internal transactions)
trading
The distinction between OECD: Category 6 Core Digital 5 core digital industries
digital economy and other Industry
industries

The contribution and Splitting from existing Build a satelliteaccount
influence of the digital industries makes it difficult to containing existing industries
economy to the traditional characterize the parts that are and coordinate the input-
economy not coincident and deeply output structure between
integrated, and it is difficult to industries and digital
grasp the linkage of industry. products

272 | I S I W S C 2 0 1 9