Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just signed Decision No.307/QĐ-TTg on the organisation of the 2021 Economic Census.
Accordingly, a national-scale economic census will be conducted to collect information about production and business units, non income-generating administration agencies, non-governmental organisations and individual production and business establishments, among others.
The economic census is expected to provide a comprehensive assessment of the country's socio-economic development situation and trends and will serve as a basis for building socio-economic development plans and policies for the Party and State.
The investigation will focus on gathering information to identify surveyed units, labour and income, production and business costs, tax payment and budget contributions, scientific research and technological development (R&D), innovation, energy consumption, technology application, financial access, and others.
The PM assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment (General Statistics Office)to assume the responsibility of building the census plan under the principle of maximising data on enterprises and making the best use of information technology.
The economic census will be carried out in two phases with the preliminary results to be announced in December 2021. The official results will be released in the second quarter of 2022.
