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VIETNAM STATISTICAL DEVELOPMET
STRATEGY 2011-2020, VISION TO 2030
(VSDS)
Presented by: Nguyen Van Doan
Director, Institute of Statistical Science
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December, 2012
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CONTENTS
 Context
 Building
process
 Main contents of VSDS
 Implementation progress
1. CONTEXT
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International context:
 Deeper and wider international integration;
 Knowledge economy and global value chains;
 Challenges facing the regional and international statistical
community;
 Support of Paris21 to build national statistical development
strategies
Domestic context:
 New development stage of Vietnam;
 Vietnam's Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2011-2020;
 Monitoring and evaluation based on evidence
 The mission of Vietnam Statistics
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Vietnam Statistical Development Strategy 2011-2020.
2. BUILDING PROCESS of VSDS
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5 phases
Phase 5
: Approving,
Disseminating
the VSDS
Phase 4
Developing
the Action
Plans;
Phase 3
Identifying
the Mission
and Vision
Phase 2
Assessing
the VSS
Phase 1
Starting
building the
VSDS
Phase 1
Starting building
the VSDS
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• Studying the materials:
• Paris21
• Designing the roadmap to build the VSDS
• Mobilizing the resources:
• National resources;
• International organizations’ resources.
• Establishing the Strategy building unit:
• The government: political support;
• The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI):
• Establishing the Draft Board including 17 members
• Chairman: Deputy Minister of MPI;
• Members: GSO, MPI, key ministries and Provinces.
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Phase 2
Assessing the VSS
Evaluating 10 fields:
(1) Information dissemination policy and the needs of users ;
(2) Legal framework for statistical activities;
(3) Institutional framework and coordination activities;
(4) Quality of economic statistics;
(5) Quality of population, social and environmental statistics;
(6) Information Technology and Communications;
(7) Human Resource Development Policy;
(8) Statistical material and technical facilities;
(9) Financial resources and coordination of funding programs;
(10) Statistical system of Vietnam and some other nations.
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Phase 2
Assessing the VSS
(2)
• Assessment tools:
• Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) ;
• General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) ;
• Extended standards.
• Human resource:
• 01 international expert;
• 14 national experts;
• Institute of Statistical Science.
• Assessment process:
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Training;
Consulting;
Drafting the report;
Reading the assessment;
Holding the workshop and taking the critique;
completing the report.
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Phase 3
Identifying
the Mission and Vision
Mission:
to produce and disseminate timely, accurate, adequate, objective and transparent
statistical information, and to provide the statistical services effectively for
serving the assessment and forecast of activities, the strategy and policy
planning as well as the socio-economic planning of the Party and State
organs, and for meeting the needs of statistical information of the other
organizations and individuals.
Vision:
To meet the national and international needs of information perfectly, and to
become the leading statistical organization in Southeast Asia in 2030.
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Phase 4
Developing the
Action Plans
09 action plans:
(1) Improving the institution, organization, legal framework and coordination in the
State Statistical system;
(2) Strengthening the research with the methodology and process in accordance
with international standards;
(3) Renewing and improving the quality of information processing;
(4) Renewing and improving the quality of information collection;
(5) Strengthening the activities of analysis and forecast;
(6) Developing the statistical human resource;
(7) Applying and developing the information technology in statistics;
(8) Ensuring the material facilities and finance for statistical activities;
(9) Improving the effect of international cooperation in statistical activities.
Phase 5
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Approving, Disseminating
the VSDS
• Assessing:
• Ministry of Justice;
• Office of the Government.
• Approving:
The Prime Minister approved the Decision No 1803/QĐ-TTg
• Disseminating:
• 02 national conferences;
• Press release, communications
• Some publications: ….
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3. MAIN CONTENTS of VSDS
3.1. Point of view
3.2. Objectives
3.3. Solutions
3.4. Action plans
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3.1. Point of view
• Implementing the functions, duties and authorities of the Vietnam
Statistics;
• Complying with the 10 principles governing international statistical
activities by the UN;
• Renewing and improving the Vietnam statistical system to be more
modern and effective with high-quality data; Synchronizing,
standardizing, “processing” and computerizing all the statistical
processes;
• Developing rapidly and stably with a good roadmap; Closely and
harmoniously combining between the short-term and long-term
objectives as well as between the rapid and sustainable development;
• Ensuring the conditions of the Strategy’s feasibility including Legal
basis, organizational structure, human resource, finance and
material facilities.
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3.2. Objectives
General objectives
• The rapid and sustainable development of Vietnam Statistics based on
improving the organizational system, the quality of human resource; the
advanced statistical methods using modern technology.
• The establishment of centralized, unified, coherent and effective national
information system at the intermediate level in 2020 and at the advanced
level in 2030.
Specific objectives
• Developing the system of ministerial statistical indicators: completing all the
3 systems in 2020, meeting the 6 quality criteria and ensuring the
comparison with the international standards.
• Establishing the national information system with the coordination, sharing
and connection among the organizations; building the database; building the
socio-economic statistical data warehouse in 2020.
• Improving the SNA implementation; implementing the GDDS and applying
the SDDS.
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3.3. Solutions
Group 1. Improving the legal framework and coordination
mechanism
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Amending and supplementing the Statistics Law and the
relevant documents; strengthening the statistical
inspection system;
Building and promulgating the document of information
coordinating, exchanging, sharing and connecting
mechanism;
Building and promulgating the policy of statistical
information dissemination;
Establishing the legal basis to develop some statistical
services.
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3.3. Solutions(2)
Group 2. The statistical work
Improving the capacity of scientific research in statistics;
• Compiling and disseminating the materials of statistical methodology;
• Building and standardizing the statistical processes;
• Improving the statistical methodologies and sampling survey
methods;
• Improving the checklists;
• Building and publishing the important balance sheets;
• Expanding the application of SNA;
• Renewing and improving the quality of statistical information
collection;
• Closely combining among the following solutions:
- Effectively collecting the information to measure the quality indicators
and synthetic indicators;
- Renewing the activities of processing, synthesizing and disseminating
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statistical information;
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3.3. Solutions (3)
Group 3. The application and development of Information
Technology in Statistics
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Applying IT in statistics to improve the effect of statistical
activities and establishing the national information
system with the computerization;
Synchronously investing the IT infrastructure;
E-survey; developing the application software;
Building the centralized database and statistical data
warehouse at the GSO and ministries;
Developing the e-government applications of the State
Statistical system.
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3.3. Solutions (4)
Group 4. The organization and human resource
• The centralized statistics: renewing the organizational structure
with the specialization of statistical activities;
• The ministerial statistics: improving the organization;
• The statistical civil servants in accordance with the standards
regulated in the Statistics Law;
• Establishing the statistical collaborator force;
• Supplementing and improving the standards of statistical civil
servants;
• Renewing the activities of training, recruiting, managing and
using the professional and enthusiastic statistical human
resource;
• Expanding the size and improving the quality of statistical
training activities;;
• Training the statistical human resource at graduate and
postgraduate degrees .
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3.3. Solutions (5)
Group 5. The other solutions
• Strengthening the activities of scientific research ;
• Improving the mechanism managing the financial
resource;
• International cooperation;
• Developing programs to disseminate the Statistics Law;
• Supervise, monitor the implementation of Strategy;
• Incorporating the activities to implement the Strategy
with annual working and competition programs;
• Reviewing and making the preliminary and final
summing-up of the implementation of Strategy.
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3.4. ACTION PLAN
AP1: Improving the institution, legal framework…
AP2: Strengthening the activities of scientific research, applying
AP3: Renewing and improving the quality of the statistical data
collection
AP4: Renewing and improving the quality of the activities of
processing and disseminating statistical information);
AP5: Strengthening the activities of statistical analysis and forecast
AP6: Applying and developing the IT…
AP7: Developing the statistical human resource
AP8: Expanding and improving the effect of international
cooperation in statistics
AP9: Investing the material facilities and mobilizing the
financial resource
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3.4. ACTION PLAN (detail)
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09 Action Plan
45 main Actions
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main
activities
07 main
Activities
04 main
11 main
activities
activities
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main
04
main
activities
activities
04 main
04 main
04 main
activities
activities
activities
More than 100 detail activities
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4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (1)
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 Disseminating VSDS:
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National conferences;
Reportages
Publications
 Establishing the National Steering committee
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Including 17 members
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Chairman: Deputy Minister of MPI;
Members: GSO, MPI, key ministries and provinces.
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4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (2)
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Planning to implement the VSDS
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The Decision No 662/QĐ-KHĐT approved by the Minister of MPI
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Contents of PI:
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The names of activities (>100 activities);
The implementation time;
The implementation units;
The expected products.
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The conference calling the technical support to implement the VSDS
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Developing the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (M&E)
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Some ongoing activities:
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The statistical work: Researching and applying the international
methodologies;
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The legal framework:
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Amending the Statistics Law;
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Compiling the policy of statistical information dissemination…
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4. IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS (3)
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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E):
Developing the M&E Framework;
• Evaluation Process: five key activities
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Baseline survey;
Bi-Annual Performance Reviews;
Annual Performance Reviews;
Mid-Term Performance Evaluation;
Final Evaluation
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Summary
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The building process of VSDS :
• Based on the 5-phase roadmap of Paris21;
• Supported by political high level: Primer Minister, MPI
leaders;
• Technical supported by Paris21, UNDP, UNFPA, WB, etc.
The implementation of VSDS:
• The detailed action plans (>100 activities);
• The close monitoring and evaluation;
• In general, the VSDS implemented in the past
year:
• In accordance with the roadmap;
• Satisfactory initial result;
• Improved position of the Vietnam Statistics;
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mid-term evaluation result
of the VSDS.
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