Service Sector Development in Cambodia: Employment Choice and Household Consumption of Services

This chapter discusses the current state of service sector development in Cambodia as a result of structural transformation. It is divided into three parts. First, it provides an overview of the service sector in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to identify Cambodia’s place in the region. Second, service sector development in Cambodia is discussed in detail, with a focus on structural transformation, employment, and consumption patterns over the past decades. Third, we investigate the determinants of employment in the service sector and its implications on household consumption patterns in Cambodia by using the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES) for 2009 and 2014 (National Institute of Statistics, 2010; 2015).