1. The Development of Statistical Business Registers in
VIET NAM

2. Outline Structure of the SBR Information sources
Technological environment
Updating and maintenance processes
Uses of statistical business registers
Issues and challenges
Ongoing initiatives and long-term plans

3. 1. Structure of the SBR
Please provide the following details based on the country’s SBR and the information therein:
Business demographic information: Yes
Main variables: birth, death, employee, capital, kind of business units, business activities.
Years covered: from business register system start (start working in GSO 2002)
Number of records
Changes in the number of records over the years: birth~100,000 units; death ~ 80,000 units; and number of changed ~ 50,000 units
Sectors covered: State; FDI; Private
Industry and product classifications used: Industry classification
Local and foreign ownership of enterprises: yes
Small, medium and large enterprises: base on capital
Enterprises engaged in international trade: yes
The SBR team
A team in Statistical Standard, Methodology and ITC Department: knowledge on sample selection and IT

4. 2. Information sources Details of the sources of information
Economic census: Statistical Trade and Service Department, every 5 years
Surveys: Statistical Industry Department; Enterprise survey, every year
Administrative data: General Tax Office, Tax Register, every month (Tax data, every year)
Public information: Not yet
Any initiatives related to Big Data? Not yet
How are information from different sources linked to create the records in SBR? Tax code
Are there formal data sharing agreements with the custodians of the principal data sources? Memorial Note

5. 3. Technological environment
Describe the IT and computing system in place to support the SBR
Hardware systems: one server, increasing to 3 after data connection project completed.
Software systems: to mapping data from multi data sources
Stand alone or networked: Stand alone
Internally or externally networked: Internally
Durability or lifespan of the systems: at what time intervals the systems are upgraded (e.g. 3 years?) 5 years
Describe the backup systems (what happens if the data is lost from the main system?) there is other server to backup data
IT support: internal
Are there provisions in the NSO’s business plan to provide long term support to the system? Yes
Safeguards in place to protect the data: Data center and implementing team

6. 4. Updating and maintenance processes
How often are the information updated: monthly
Online, batch or incremental updating: manual update by batch, expected online update from June, 2017
The principal data sources used for updating: priority update table: which indicators are priority to update from Tax data, which indicators are priority to update from survey data
How is the new information related to existing records verified? Tax register data is overwritten base on the rule on priority update table. (Tax data is create new records over the year)
Verification/validation procedures in place for adding/deleting records
What are the “out of scope” or error reporting facilities in the system? Error in the information related the date time
How could new relevant data sources and variables be incorporated? Tax code is linked
What are the facilities available for periodic macro analysis and high level verification of the data in the SBR?:
Statistical Standard Methodology and ITC Department; and other Departments that have sample survey related business units

7. 5. Uses of Statistical Business Registers
How is the information stored in SBR being used currently?
Update to Master sample frame
Select sample survey
What are the potential uses of the information in SBR within your country context?
Are studying to calculate some statistical indicators and reduce content of questionnaire of enterprise survey
Could SBR be expanded to accommodate other data storage and information generation needs of your country? Same above
What are the benefits of using SBR currently being realized?
Save cost for sample survey
What are the potential benefits of using SBRs for the NSO and the government?
Reduce responses burden in enterprise survey
Save cost and time
Provide the basic to conduct sample survey related business units at local unit level

8. 6. Issue and challenges
The main issues and challenges faced in developing, maintaining and using the SBRs:
Technical: change the method of currently sample survey (reduce content, sample at local unit level)
Technological: requires to invest an system (hardware + software)
Administrative:
Resources: large of work to maintain and update SBRs
Possible sustainable solutions to the issues and challenges noted
Evaluate the data source: complete, up to date, enough key information
Mapping data: linked records, scope of data and same unit
Maintain: using IT to update online
The role of multilateral organizations in addressing these issues and challenges
Discuss to build the Memorial Note on data sharing

9. 7. Ongoing initiatives and Long-term plans
Current SBR related initiatives underway in the NSO
Implementing:
Project using tax data for statistical purpose under support of ESCAP
Project data connection from General Tax Office
Planning
Develop total solution using tax data for statistical purpose
Initiatives in other departments with implications for the SBR
Government wide initiatives with implication for the SBR (e.g. digitization strategy)
Statistical Law 2015
Viet Nam Statistical development Strategy and vision to 2030
The 3-5 year outlook for the SBR:
Is there a plan to upgrade and develop the SBR ?
Specifics on what should be achieved in the 3-5 year horizon
The potential roles of the NSO, government and multilateral organizations