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    Vietnam 2022-2024

    Vietnam ISS_18726_08385

     

    Statistics Denmark is implementing the first phase of a Strategic Sector Program in Vietnam financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Our partner is the General Statistics Office of Viet Nam (GSO). The GSO is an organization under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) performing the advisory function for the MPI Minister on state management in statistics and providing social and economic information to national and international organizations and individuals. The GSO also plays a key role in monitoring the SDGs.

    The overall objective

    The overall objective of the Strategic Sector Program is to contribute to the development process of the Viet Nam by providing adequate and trustworthy statistics complying with the international standards and trends.

    The project plays an important role in the process to informed decision-making by supporting the development of at least four areas:

    • Modernizing the data collection methods for population and migration statistics so that Viet Nam can improve the quality of demographic statistics and gain more reliable information on the developments m the population
    • Developing education statistics with the ambition that an education sector will have an informed platform to base daily operations and future development
    • Introducing Big Data as a new data source in Viet Nam and producing experimental statistics in order to provide more knowledge on the Vietnamese society
    • Developing the GSO's capacity to develop environmental-economic accounts, hence increase available knowledge on the environmental situation in Viet Nam and improve monitoring and reporting of the environmental-related SDGs.

    The project is structured around four outcomes and associated outputs:

    A. Foundation for using administrative data for producing population statistics information improved.

      • Output A: Administrative data for compilation population statistics analyzed

    B. Quality of education statistics is strengthened by the consistent use of administrative data on education.

      • Output B: Administrative data on education is case studied

    C. Big Data is used as a new data source for producing statistics in Viet Nam.

      • Output C: At least one pilot experimental statistics based on Big Data is produced

    D. System of environmental-economic accounts is studied

      • Output D: Environmental-economic accounts are compiled to have more indicators for SDG monitoring indicators are available for SDG monitoring