Nationwide economic survey starts from March 1

The General Statistics Office (GSO) is conducting a nationwide economic survey from March 1 to evaluate the performance of economic and administrative units from grassroots to central levels.
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Hanoi (VNA) – The GeneralStatistics Office (GSO) is conducting a nationwide economic survey from March 1to evaluate the performance of economic and administrative units from grassrootsto central levels.

The moveaims to examine the efficiency of business operation, the application ofinformation and technology, and the structure of manufacturing agencies and distributionof workers in each locality and economic sector, said Director of the GSONguyen Bich Lam in a recent interview with Vietnam News Agency.

The GSO willdevise statistics criteria in 2016 – the first year of the socio-economicdevelopment strategy through 2020 and the national gross domestic product and grossregional domestic product targets, and update a database on businesses.

A new pointof this year’s survey is collecting data on foreign non-governmental organisationsin Vietnamto fully assess manufacturing activities of all economic organisations andindividuals, he said.

The agencywill also use information from the taxation sector, the State treasury, andother State management agencies on health, education-training, culture-sports,and information-communication as references.

The surveywill be carried out in two periods, with the first running from March 1 forbusinesses and administrative units, and the second from July 1 for individualmanufacturing facilities and religious organisations.

Thestatistics sector will work with relevant ministries and sectors from central tolocal levels to carry out the vital economic inspection, Lam said.

Basic informationcollected from the survey will reveal the operational efficiency of State-runand non-State enterprises as well as foreign-invested companies, small-andmedium-sized enterprises, and cooperatives, he said.

Additionally,data on how processing, manufacturing and assembling businesses access capitaland new technologies will evaluate their competitiveness and economicintegration, he added.

Suchinformation is valuable to reflect the state of the economy in 2016, thushelping devise policies to boost economic growth, he noted.-VNA
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