Improve the quality of statistical information, comply with international standards

General Director of the General Statistics Office Nguyen Thi Huong speaks at the seminar. (Photo: MH)

Speaking at the seminar, Director General of the General Statistics Office Nguyen Thi Huong emphasized: "The trust and responsible use of statistical data in every word, news line, and article by journalists gives the General Statistics Office more strength to continue researching and finding ways and methods to improve the quality of statistical information."

In the field of international cooperation, the General Statistics Office is connecting with organizations such as the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFA), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and statistical agencies of advanced countries (Italy, Japan, Denmark, Bangladesh, etc.) to enhance cooperation, exchange and learn from experiences.

ADB is funding the GSO for the JFPR TA 6856 project on “Developing new statistical resources and building capacity on new technology and data resources”. Statistics Denmark is collaborating with the GSO to implement the project “Supporting Vietnam to improve the quality of official statistics” and Statistics Korea has implemented the project “Supporting the GSO to improve the quality of official statistics, building a national statistical database and training staff” for a period of 4 years (from 2022-2025).

With the constant movement of economic and social life, many new fields and professions are emerging, the diverse access of information users, the explosion of technology related to all aspects of life... requires the Statistics sector to always move and innovate. Statistical methods therefore have changes to keep up with the development of society. With the characteristics of a specialized sector, the methodology of the General Statistics Office always complies with international standards and is suitable for Vietnamese practice.

Delegates attending the seminar. (Photo: MH)

Currently, the Statistics sector is making great efforts to improve the quality of statistical information and to disseminate and popularize statistical information in many diverse and rich forms to a wide range of domestic and international information users. The Statistics sector always identifies innovation and improvement of statistical information quality as a regular and long-term task reflected in many activities of the sector, including building and perfecting the legal basis, updating the list of national statistical indicators; statistical indicators at provincial, district and commune levels in accordance with international standards and Vietnam's practices; building a framework to assess the implementation of socio-economic development goals.

This is the basis for the National Assembly and Provincial People's Councils to issue Resolutions on socio-economic development of the whole country, of provinces and centrally run cities, creating favorable conditions for leaders at all levels to use unified and synchronous indicators from the central to local levels, in order to monitor, supervise, evaluate, manage and operate the socio-economic development situation periodically every 5 years and annually.

Delegates attending the event took a souvenir photo. (Photo: Thuy Tram)

Also at the seminar, with the spirit of open exchange, dialogue and sharing, the leaders of the General Statistics Office and units under the General Department clarified many other issues such as perfecting the legal system on statistics, unemployment rate, quantifying the impact (damage) of the recent local (but widespread) power outage on the production and business of enterprises, thereby affecting economic growth...

The seminar is a meaningful event, through statistics, helping industry professionals and journalists, reporters, and editors have a common voice, helping readers nationwide have authentic perspectives on the picture of the socio-economic situation of the whole country, regions, and each locality.