General Statistics Office conducted Enterprise Survey 2019

Enterprise survey is a national survey program conducted annually by the General Statistics Office. Source: Internet

This is a national survey program that is implemented annually by the Statistic sector in order to collect basic information to serve for the work of management, policy making, socio-economic development plan, and business development of each country, each provinces, investors and enterprises.

Besides that, the investigation results will be used for synthesizing the indicators in the National Statistical Indicator System, the indicators in the annual official report of the Statistics sector and the basic information source for publishing “White Books of enterprises in Vietnam in 2020 ".

The basic new feature of the Enterprise Survey 2019 is collecting information about evaluation of the status of supporting industries in the manufacturing and processing industry and logistic services. These are the two topics being the concern of the Government and policy makers in developing the socio-economic development strategy in the future.

The subjects of the survey included: Enterprises established and regulated by the Enterprise Law; Co-operatives society/ co-operatives union/ people's credit funds operating under the Cooperative Law and established enterprises which are subjected to the regulation of specialized laws such as Law on Insurance, Law on Securities ... operating business activities before 01/01/2019 are currently operating; business establishments operates under the enterprise.

Contents of the survey including: Labor information, asset value, capital, unfinished product, inventory of finished product (information gathered at the time of 01/01/2018 and 31/12/2018); Information collected in the period such as: results of business production, products, costs, taxes ... and using official data of the whole year 2018. The time for collecting data will start from 1/3/2019 to 19/5/2019.

Due to the complex nature of the survey content and the qualifications of accounting and statistics officials, as well as information technology application of different survey units, the Program will apply 3 methods of collecting data including: direct collection; indirect collection; collected via online questionnaires.

According to the plan, in 10/2019, the results of a quick summary of enterprise surveys will be announced; On 13/10, on the right day of Vietnamese Businessmen, it will announce the set of indicators for assessing the level of enterprise development in the country and in localities; 12/2019, it will announce the full results of the Enterprise Survey and the Vietnam White Book in 2019.