The General Statistics Office (GSO) has begun carrying out a national business census in 2018 to take stock of the real situation in corporate development (Illustrative image. Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The General StatisticsOffice (GSO) has begun carrying out a national business census in 2018 to takestock of the real situation in corporate development.
The survey aims to gather sufficient informationabout businesses, and calculate more accurately the national gross domesticproduct (GDP) as well as the gross regional domestic product (GRDP), accordinghead of the GSO’s Industry Statistics Department Pham Dinh Thuy.
Its result is expected to support management,policy-making, and socio-economic development for centrally-run cities andprovinces.
The collection of information will help evaluatethe application of science and technology in enterprises and their readiness inthe fourth industrial revolution.
The GSO will investigate six groups of information related to enterprises. Thefirst group will focus on information identifying the unit of investigation,such as the business name, address, telephone, fax, email, type of business andbusiness activities.
The second group will be information on labourand the income of labourers.
The third one will be indicators of productionand businesses, including assets and resources of capital, production andbusiness results, tax and budget remittances, energy consumption and investmentcapital.
The fourth and fifth groups will containinformation on the subsidiaries of the businesses, including the corporatename, business activities, product and output, labour and revenue, in additionto the use of technology in production, technology transfer channels, capacityto innovate and improve technology and business readiness in the fourthindustrial revolution.
The last group will cover data on the cost ofraw materials, labour costs and the asset depreciation expense.-VNA
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