Economic census launched nationwide
VOV.VN - The General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) launched the 2021 Economic Census nationwide on March 1 with the primary aim of providing an assessment of the nation’s socio-economic development, thereby helping the Party and State to make further development plans and policies.
According to Nguyen Trung Tien, deputy director general of the GSO, results of the census are part of the foundation for the compilation of targets regarding gross domestic product (GDP), gross regional domestic product (GRDP), and many other crucial statistical indicators.
The key objectives of the census relate to production and business enterprises and co-operatives, production and business establishments under administrative agencies and productive agencies, along with branches and representative offices of foreign enterprises and foreign non-governmental organisations. This is in addition to religious and belief establishments, along with individual non-agricultural, fishery and forestry businesses and production establishments.
Moving forward, the census will focus on collecting information regarding production and business types, forms of operation, labour and the income of labourers, production and business outcomes and costs, the use of information technology, and access to loans and international economic integration.
In line with this, preliminary data will be released in December, while official results are anticipated to be announced in January, 2022.
Most notably, results of the 2017 Economic Census indicate that there were more than 5.86 million economic units nationwide as of July 1, 2017, including over 517,900 enterprises employing 26.9 million staff, and more than 14 million labourers, respectively, up 13.7% and 18.6% as compared to 2012.
The census also revealed several shortcomings of local enterprises, including employment downsizing and the ineffective application of information technology at State-owned agencies.