A census of enterprises is to be conducted nationwide by the General Statistics Office (GSO) from April 15 to May 30, according to the GSO’s Department of Statistical Data Collection and IT Application.
The census will cover enterprises across most sectors in the Vietnamese economy. (Illustrative photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – A census ofenterprises is to be conducted nationwide by the General Statistics Office(GSO) from April 15 to May 30, according to the GSO’s Department of StatisticalData Collection and IT Application.
GSO Deputy General Director NguyenTrung Tien said the census aims to collect information about enterprises,cooperatives, and cooperative alliances to serve socio-economic management,governance, assessment, and forecasting, along with the forming of developmentpolicies and plans for the economy as a whole and each locality.
It will also help with calculatingthe gross domestic product (GDP) and localities’ gross regional domestic product(GRDP), and compiling the 2023 white books on enterprises and cooperatives,among others, he noted.
This census will cover enterprises acrossmost sectors in the Vietnamese economy, except for those involved in activitiesof the Communist Party of Vietnam, socio-political organisations, statemanagement, and security - defence; activities of international organisationsand agencies; and hired labour in families and production of self-consumedproducts and services in households.
Data will be collected online, andrespondents will provide information via the enterprise census website of theGSO.
Official results of the census arescheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2023, the GSO added./.
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The census will cover enterprises across most sectors in the Vietnamese economy. (Illustrative photo: VNA) 
