Abstract
The sport satellite account (SSA) has been introduced in the EU, and the industrial scale of sports is estimated by the SSA. The purpose of this study was to clarify the methodology of the EU sport satellite account and to discuss the possibility of introducing the sport satellite account in Japan. As a result of this study, it became clear that the European SSA has developed a definition of the sports industry based on classification of products by activity (CPA) and adopted a method of estimating the sports industry based on the numerical value given in the input-output table. It is extremely important to continually estimate the size of the sports industry based on the industrial classification in Japan. This paper clarifies the basic way of making the EU SSA and shows that there is a possibility for the introduction of the SSA in Japan.
