IT application ensures high-quality 2019 census: Deputy PM
Capitalising on the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s advantages and applying information and technology (IT) are significant to running a streamlined and high-quality national census in 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has said.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the first meeting of the national steering committee on national census on November 19. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Capitalising on the Fourth Industrial Revolution’sadvantages and applying information and technology (IT) are significant to runninga streamlined and high-quality national census in 2019, Deputy Prime MinisterVuong Dinh Hue has said.
The official, who is head of the national steering committee on nationalcensus, made the statement while chairing the first meeting of the committee onNovember 19.
As advanced technologies create both convenience and systematic risks, he askedthe Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, the Ministry of PublicSecurity, the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) and the Ministry ofPlanning and Investment to anticipate risks and ensure information safety.
The population and housing census is executed every 10 years, with thecountry’s fifth scheduled for April 1, 2019. It is important to the Party,Government and National Assembly to evaluate people’s living conditions and housinggrowth.
Besides serving theneed for information to assess and work out socio-economic plans, the censuswill provide a basis for initial assessment of the implementation of the UNMillennium Development Goals.
Earlier, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc inked Decision No.772/QD-TTG on thenational census on April 1, 2019. Accordingly, the census will investigategeneral population information, migration status, academic attainment level,technological specialisation, disability rate, marital status, birth and deathrate, population growth, labour-occupation, residency and local basic livingconditions.
According to GSO Deputy General Director Pham Quang Vinh, the survey will bemade at a smaller scale compared to that 10 years ago, and there will be abreakthrough in data collection, which will be made via CAPI (electronic formsinstalled on handheld electronic devices like tablets and mobile phones) andweb forms.
The census will cost more than 1.5 trillion VND (64.5 million USD), triple theamount spent in the previous survey, Vinh said, explaining that this is due toIT costs and an increase in working hours.
He underlined that as the census is used to evaluate development, informationon population and housing should be updated yearly, instead of 10 years asusual.
Collection modes should be improved as traditional paper-based methods have ahuge burden of expenditure and time, he added.-VNA
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Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the first meeting of the national steering committee on national census on November 19. (Photo: VNA) 
