DECISION

CONDUCTING 2020 BUSINESS SURVEY

DIRECTOR OF THE GENERAL STATISTICS OFFICE OF VIETNAM

Pursuant to the Law on Statistics dated November 23, 2015;

Pursuant to the Prime Minister's Decision No. 54/2010/QD-TTg dated August 24, 2010 prescribing functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of the General Statistics Office directly controlled by the Ministry of Planning and Investment; the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 65/2013/QD-TTg dated November 11, 2013, amending and supplementing Point a of  Clause 1 of Article 3 of the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 54/2010/QD-TTg dated August 24, 2010, prescribing functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of the General Statistics Office directly controlled by the Ministry of Planning and Investment;

Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 43/2016/QD-TTg dated October 17, 2016 regarding the promulgation of the national statistical survey program;

Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 1255/QD-TTg dated September 26, 2018 on approval of the Scheme for setting up the set of indices for assessment the level of corporate development;

Pursuant to the Decision No. 1793/QD-BKHDT dated December 12, 2016 of the Minister of Planning and Investment regarding the empowerment of the Director of the General Statistics Office to sign the decision to carry out the authorized statistical surveys in the National Statistical Survey Program;

Pursuant to the Decision No. 748/QD-TCTK dated May 30, 2019 of the Director of the General Statistics Office to issue the 2020 statistical survey plan of the General Statistics Office;

Upon the request of the Director of the Industrial Statistics,

HEREBY DECIDES

Article 1. Conduct of the 2020 survey of businesses, including enterprises and cooperatives/alliances of cooperatives (collectively referred to as enterprises or businesses) of various economic types nationwide to collect information necessary for management and outlining of socio-economic development policies and plans of the entire nation, localities, investors and enterprises.

Article 2. Directors of enterprises and leaders of cooperatives/alliances of cooperatives shall be responsible for reporting full, accurate and timely information required on survey questionnaires.

Article 3. Establishment of the Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys at all levels as follows: 

1. At the central level: Establishing the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys, composed of the Director of Industry Statistics Department as the Committee’s Leader; Directors of Departments, including Department of Trade and Services Statistics; Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery Statistics; Department of Construction and Investment Capital Statistics; Department of Social and Environment Statistics; System of National Accounts; Department of Statistical Methodology and Information Technology; Department of Legal Affairs; Statistical Inspectorate, and Director of Center of Statistical Informatics Services Number 1, as the Committee’s members. The Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys at the central level shall be responsible for assisting the Director of the General Statistics Office in planning and directing the implementation of surveys.

2. At the local level: The Directors of the Statistical Offices of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities shall be authorized to set up the Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys in provinces and centrally-affiliated cities that assist the Directors of these Offices in directing the implementation of local business surveys.  The Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys in provinces and centrally-affiliated cities, composed of 01 office-holder of the Statistics Department designated as a Committee’s Head; Head of Division of Industry Statistics and Head of Division of Trade Statistics designated as a Committee’s Deputy Heads; representatives of the leaderships of other statistics divisions and statisticians of relevant professional divisions designated as a Committee’s members. The Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys in provinces and centrally-affiliated cities shall be responsible for directing and conducting surveys of businesses located within provinces and centrally-affiliated cities under the decisions issued by the Director of the General Statistics Office and the guidance given by the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys at the central level.

Article 4. This Decision shall enter into force from the signature date.

Article 5. Head of the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys, Heads of units specified in Article 3, Director of the Financial Planning Department, and Head of the Office of the General Statistics Office, shall be responsible for enforcing this Decision./.

2020 BUSINESS SURVEY PLAN

(Annexed to the Decision No. 1193/QD-TCTK dated July 30, 2019 of the Director of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam)

I. SURVEY’S OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS

1. Survey’s objectives

The 2020 business survey shall be conducted for the following purposes:

- Collect basic information necessary for management and outlining of socio-economic and corporate development policies and plans of the entire nation, specific localities, investors and enterprises or cooperatives (hereinafter collectively referred to as enterprises or businesses);

- Synthesize and design indicators in the National Statistical Indicator System, or those indicators in the annual official statistics reports;

- Compile and compose "Business white paper in 2021";

- Assess the developments of technology application in businesses;

- Update the database of businesses on an annual basis, provide sample frames for annual statistical sampling surveys, regular surveys, and other statistical requirements.

2. Survey requirements

The 2020 business survey shall meet the following requirements:

- The information handling and collection, data processing, information aggregation, disclosure and storage must be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the survey plan;

- All information required in the survey plan must be collected in full and in an accurate and timely manner without being duplicated or omitted;

- All information provided by survey respondents must be treated as classified information as provided in the Law on Statistics.

II. TARGET POPULATION, SURVEY UNITS AND POPULATION  

1. Target population

The target population of the 2020 business survey shall comprise:

- Businesses established and regulated by the Enterprise Law; cooperatives/alliances of cooperatives/people's credit funds (hereinafter collectively referred to as cooperatives) operating under the Law on Cooperatives; and businesses established and governed by specialized Laws, such as the Insurance Law, the Securities Law, etc. in operation before January 1, 2020, all of which remain active now[1];

- Manufacturing and business entities directly controlled by businesses.

2. Survey units

Survey units shall be the following businesses:

(1) Businesses without any of their affiliates or subsidiaries located elsewhere (single-based enterprises). They are those having only one fixed location to carry out production and business activities;

(2) Businesses with their affiliates or subsidiaries located in other places. They are those businesses having their head offices and at least one directly controlled affiliate or subsidiary located elsewhere, specifically including their head offices which are the places where their general business activities are administered.  A business with their head office is a survey unit if they have at least 1  business entity under their direct control that is located elsewhere; Directly-controlled affiliates or subsidiaries are business entities not classified as head offices of businesses.

(3) Corporations and incorporations:

- For 62 corporations and incorporations engaged in accounting activities of the entire system in the following fields: post and telecommunications, electricity, insurance, aviation, rail transportation, and banking, with many units and branches located nationwide, the General Statistics Office will carry out surveys of office admin staff and dependent accounting units located in provinces and centrally-affiliated cities. Statistics Offices of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities shall collect information solely from businesses with independent accounting practices, without being involved in the accounting activities of the entire system, and directly belonging to these corporations and incorporations, that are located in provinces and centrally-run cities (List of corporations and incorporations is given in Appendix 1);

- Other remaining corporations and incorporations (except aforesaid 62 corporations and incorporations): If the Statistics Offices of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities carry out surveys, survey units must be: (1) Offices of corporations or incorporations (reporting information on business of offices of corporations, incorporations and their accounting units dependent); (2) Businesses directly belonging to corporations and incorporations with independent economic accounting regimes located within their jurisdiction;

- Corporations and incorporations organized in the form of parent-subsidiary companies: Survey units must be parent companies and their member companies which are independent economic accounting subsidiaries.

3. Survey population

The survey shall include businesses, cooperatives and business entities under the direct control of businesses belonging to the target population that are located nationwide, and operating in all sectors specified in the Vietnam Standard Industry Classification (VSIC 2018) (the industry O- Operations of the Communist Party, socio-political organizations, state management, national defense and security; compulsory social security; and the industry T- Contractual work for families, manufacturing of physical products and services for household self-consumption purposes, shall be excepted because the target population does not belong to these industries).

III. SURVEY DATE AND FIELD PERIOD, DATA COLLECTION PERIOD

1. Survey date and field period

- Information about labor and inventory value shall be collected on January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019.

- Information collected on a periodic basis (e.g. business and production results, products, etc.) shall be official data of the entire year 2019.

2. Data collection period

Proposed data collection period:  From April 1, 2020 to May 30, 2020.

IV. SURVEY CONTENTS AND SURVEY FORMS

1. Survey contents

- Identity information about survey units, including:  Business’ name; address, phone, facsimile number and email address; business type; business scope.

- Information about labor and employee’s income, including: Labor; employee’s income.

- Business and production indicators, including: Business and production results; inventories; investment capital; newly increased capacity.

- Information about businesses’ affiliates or subsidiaries, including: Their name; scope of business and production activities; production output/product; labor; sales or revenues.

- Information about corporate technological applications, including: Technologies already applied to business and production activities; level of approachability to the Fourth Industrial Revolution; business’ assessment of impacts of the Industrial Revolution and employee's skills in the digital era.

2. Survey forms

The 2020 business survey shall use 18 survey forms as follows:

(1) Form No. 1A/DTDN-DN: Questionnaire applicable to enterprises and cooperatives. This form can be commonly used for collecting information about state enterprises, non-state enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, or cooperatives/alliances of cooperatives, chosen as survey samples;

(2) Form No. 1A.2/DTDN-CN: Questionnaire on industrial product output and consumption volume. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities involved in industrial operations;

(3) Form No. 1A.2m/DTDN-DVGC: Questionnaire on toll manufacturing of commodities under contracts with foreign partners. This form can be used for collecting information about enterprises providing direct product contract manufacturing and assembly services for foreign partners;

(4) Form No. 1A.3/DTDN-XD: Questionnaire on construction business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing construction services;

(5) Form No. 1A.4/DTDN-TN: Questionnaire on commercial business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities with wholesaling, retailing or servicing of automobiles, motorcycles, mopeds and other motorized vehicles;

(6) Form No. 1A.5.1/DTDN-VT: Questionnaire on transportation, postal and delivery service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing transportation, postal and delivery services;

(7) Form No. 1A.5.2/DTDN-KB: Questionnaire on cargo warehousing, storage facility, handling and shipping support service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing cargo warehousing, storage yard, handling and shipping support services;

(8) Form No. 1A.5.3/DTDN-LGT: Questionnaire on logistics service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing logistics services, including: Planning, conducting and supporting cargo transportation, warehousing, storage facility and commodity distribution services;

(9) Form No. 1A.6.1/DTDN-LTAU: Questionnaire on accommodation, food and beverage service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing food, beverage and accommodation services;

(10) Form No. 1A.6.2/DTDN-DL: Questionnaire on tourism and travel service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing tourism, travel and other tourism support services;

(11) Form No. 1A.7/DTDN-TC: Questionnaire on financial service business results and several indicators regarding credit, capital mobilization and interest rate. This form can be used for collecting information about business entities controlled by credit institutions, including: Banks, foreign bank branches, financial institutions, finance leasing companies, people's credit funds, microfinance institutions;

(12) Form No. 1A.8/DTDN-BH: Questionnaire on insurance and insurance brokerage service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing insurance and insurance brokerage services;

(13) Form No. 1A.9.1/DTDN-BDS: Questionnaire on real property service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing real property trading, consulting, brokerage and auctioning or land title auctioning services;

(14) Form No. 1A.9.2/DTDN-TT: Questionnaire on information and communication service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing information and communication services;

(15) Form No. 1A.9.3/DTDN-DVK: Questionnaire on other service business results. This form can be used for collecting information about single-based enterprises/business entities providing the services specified in this form;

(16) Form No. 1A.10/DTDN-VDT: Questionnaire on realized investments. This form can be used for collecting information about enterprises with investments realized in 2019;

(17) Form No. 1A/DTDN-DN: Questionnaire applicable to enterprises and cooperatives. This form can be used for collecting information about non-state enterprises, cooperatives, and alliances of cooperatives, not specified in the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN;

(18) Form No. 2/DTDN-CMCN: Questionnaire on businesses’ technology application. This form can be used for collecting information about enterprises chosen as survey samples.

V. CLASSIFICATION SCHEDULES OR CHARTS USED IN THE SURVEY

The 2020 business survey shall use the following schedules:

(1) Industry classification schedule: This adopts the 2018 Vietnam Standard Industry Classification issued under the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 27/2018/QD-TTg dated July 6, 2018 (VSIC 2018);

(2) Chart of administrative units: This adopts the list of administrative divisions of Vietnam which is annexed to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 124/2004/QD-TTg dated July 8, 2004 and any modifications thereof till December 31, 2019;

(3) Chart of countries and territories: This adopts the list of countries and territories under the General Statistics Office's regulations;

(4) Chart of industrial products: This is developed on the basis of the Vietnam Standard Industry Classification annexed to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 43/2018/QD-TTg dated November 1, 2018;

(5) Chart of construction projects, items and newly increased capacities: This adopts the Vietnam Product Classification System annexed to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 43/2018/QD-TTg dated November 1, 2018.

VI. TYPE OF SURVEY AND INFORMATION COLLECTION METHOD

1. Survey types

The 2020 business survey shall be conducted by employing both complete and sample survey method.

1.1. Compiling the complete list of survey units

This list shall be compiled based on the following references:

- Lists of enterprises/business entities from which survey responses are received in the 2019 business survey (available at Statistics Offices of provinces or centrally-affiliated cities, simply put as provincial-level Statistics Offices);   

- Lists of enterprises newly established in 2019 (provided by the Business Registration Administration, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the General Department of Taxation; combined by the General Statistics Office into a final list sent to provincial-level Statistics Offices);

- Lists of enterprises belonging to the target or survey population from different sources.

The General Statistics Office shall be responsible for compiling the complete list which is then sent to provincial-level Statistics Offices.

1.2. Selecting survey units

a) The following businesses shall be authorized to conduct complete surveys by using the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN

- Equitized wholly-state-owned enterprises or state enterprises with state capital accounting for 50% of their charter capital;  

- Directly foreign-invested enterprises;

- Non-state enterprises with at least 100 employees (in particular, commercial ones must hire at least 50 employees);

- Enterprises having the main scope of activities, such as accommodation, transportation (e.g. aviation, maritime and rail transportation);

- Enterprises directly controlling at least 2 business entities, at least one of which is located in provinces or centrally-affiliated cities other than where their head offices are located; 

- Enterprises applicable to the form No. 2/DTDN-CMCN. In this case, the General Statistics Office shall be responsible for compiling the list of samples and send it to provincial-level Statistics Offices for their convenience.

- 6 provinces, including Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang, Dien Bien and Lai Chau, shall be authorized to conduct the survey of businesses by using the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN.

b) Sample surveys carried out by using the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN

These surveys shall involve non-state enterprises with the payroll of fewer than 100 employees

(1) Designing the sampling frames

The sampling frame for the sample survey carried out by using the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN shall be designed based on the lists of non-state enterprises employing fewer than 100 employees (in particular, commercial ones must hire fewer than 50 employees) till December 31, 2019 in specific provinces and centrally-affiliated cities. Frames of sampling of businesses in specific provinces and centrally-affiliated cities shall be designed on the basis of labor size (under 10 employees, 10-49 employees and 50-99 employees) and according to the tier-4 industries. In each industry belonging to a sampling frame, enterprises are arranged in the descending order of labor indicators available as at December 31, 2019.

(2) Selecting survey samples

Sampling shall adhere to the principle under which selected samples must represent specific industries belonging to the tier-4 industry classification (VSIC 2018) throughout provinces and centrally-affiliated cities by using the systematic random sampling method.

- 50% of non-state enterprises with 50-99 employees that operate in all industries shall be sampled;

- With respect to non-state enterprises with the payroll of 10-49 employees:

+ 20% of those operating in the industrial, construction, insurance and financial intermediary sectors, and 15% of those located in Hai Phong city, Da Nang city, Dong Nai province and Binh Duong province, shall be sampled;

+ 15% of those operating in commercial and service sectors (except insurance and financial intermediary sectors), and 10% of those located in Hai Phong city, Da Nang city, Dong Nai province and Binh Duong province, shall be sampled;

- With respect to non-state enterprises with fewer than 10 employees: 10% of those operating in all industries, and 7% of those located in Hai Phong city, Da Nang city, Dong Nai province and Binh Duong province, shall be sampled;

Businesses in Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh city shall be sampled as follows:

- 50% of those employing 10-49 employees shall be accepted as survey samples.

- 10% of non-state enterprises employing 10-49 employees shall be selected as survey samples.

- 5% of non-state enterprises employing fewer than 10 employees shall be selected as survey samples.

List of sample businesses required to complete the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN shall be decided by the General Statistics Office and then sent to provincial-level Statistics Offices to conduct their surveys.

Non-state enterprises which are not selected as respondents to the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN shall be surveyed by completing the form No. 1B/DTDN-DS.

c) Sample surveys carried out by using the form No. 2/DTDN-CMCN

Sampling shall adhere to the principle under which selected samples must represent specific industries belonging to the tier-2 industry classification (VSIC 2018) throughout the entire nation by using the stratified random sampling method. The size of samples collected from the tier-2 industry group must be equal to the proportion of the square root of the number of enterprises in each industry to the total number of enterprises in all industries.  

d) Selection of replacement samples in case of loss

- Businesses required to complete the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN: If they do not have any business revenues/expenses and VAT payables, the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN will be skipped and the form No. 1B/DTDN-DS will be used instead;

- With respect to non-state enterprises (employing fewer than 100 employees) that are sampled for the sample survey carried out by using the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN: If they close their production and business activities, do not record any revenue/expenses and outstanding VAT amounts, or change their main production and business activities, the Standing Executive Committee in charge of provincial-level business surveys shall, on their own initiative, select replacement samples according to the following principles: Selecting enterprises of the same business type, involved in the same industry belonging to the tier-4 industry group, and having the same or similar size of revenue or labor as/to the replaced ones, and reporting on such replacement to the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys (via Department of Industrial Statistics, General Statistics Office). If enterprises switch to the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN from the form No. 2/DTDN-CMCN, though being required to complete the latter, they shall have to apply for acceptance of use of the form No. 2/DTDN-CMCN.

1.3. Reviewing the list of businesses

Based on the list sent by the General Statistics Office, provincial-level Statistics Offices shall carry out review of enterprises newly established in 2019 and those selected as samples for the surveys carried out by using the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN in cities and provinces.   During the review process, the following main information shall be verified: Business name, tax code, address, type of business, main business activities, operating status,... Such verified information shall serve as a basis for identifying the target population or respondents of the 2020 business survey and shall be used for the web-form survey (online questionnaires).

2. Information collection method

Businesses required to complete the form No. 1A/DTDN-DN:

They shall, on their own account, provide information on the business survey website according to the following steps:  They may be granted log-in accounts and passwords, entering their information in the web-form questionnaire (online survey form) on the business survey website.

Businesses required to complete the form No. 1B/DTDN-DS:

The following method of information collection shall be applied:

- They shall, on their own account, provide information on the business survey website according to the following steps:  They may be granted log-in accounts and passwords, entering their information in the web-form questionnaire (online survey form) on the business survey website.

- Survey responders shall collect respondents' answers by using email, telephone, etc.

VII. SURVEY INFORMATION HANDLING AND SURVEY RESULT SYNTHESIS PROCESSES

1. Handling of information provided in questionnaires or survey forms

- All responses or information provided in questionnaires or survey forms shall be stored in the server system of the General Statistics Office. Survey data shall be examined, cleaned, handled, synthesized and communicated in accordance with the specified survey plan.

- Handling of administrative data for the business survey on the website: General Statistics Office establishes the database, managing, handling and communicating information in a centralized manner on the business survey website. As part of the process of handling of data, they shall handle and synthesize periodic progress reports on business survey results on the nationwide and local scale.

2. Synthesis of survey results

Survey results shall be synthesized according to the system of general output variables for the entire business sector and other specialized sectors, including general indicators belonging to the national, provincial-level or district-level statistical indicator systems of business sectors, etc. 

VIII. SURVEY PLAN

1. Survey preparatory stage: Lasting from July 2019 to February 2020, including the following preparations:

a) Issuing the survey plan;

b) Compiling the list of survey units;

c) Selecting survey samples;

d) Reviewing the list of local survey units;

e) Printing out instruction manuals for the 2020 business survey;

f) Building a system of output summary tables; setting up the business survey website; creating online survey forms or questionnaires on the business survey website; designing programs for inspection and synthesis of results of provincial-level, municipal-level and national surveys;

g) Holding seminars to provide Statistics Offices in provinces and centrally-affiliated cities with training in approaches to carrying out the central-level business survey.

2. Survey implementation stage: Lasting from February 15, 2020 to May 30, 2020, including the following activities:

a) Provincial-level Statistical Offices select survey responders and supervisors according to prescribed qualification standards, organize professional training courses for survey responders on the contents, methods of filling out questionnaires and methods of information collection on the basis of the survey plan decided by the General Statistics Office;

b) Carrying out field surveys at survey units: Scheduled from April 1, 2020 to May 30, 2020.

With respect to businesses providing, on their own account, information on the business survey website, the General Statistics Office and provincial-level Statistics Offices will take charge of the following activities:

- Creating log-in accounts and passwords to specific businesses;

- Granting log-in accounts and passwords to specific businesses;

- Instructing them how to log in and access the web-form questionnaires available on the business survey website;

- Controlling the implementation progress, enabling them to speed up and give them support for their completion of online questionnaires.

With respect to businesses required to fill in the form No. 1B/DTDN-DS by responses by phone, email, etc., General Statistics Office will create log-in accounts and passwords for officers involved in the business survey at provincial-level Statistics Offices and (urban/rural) district-level Statistics Sub-offices.

3. Input of information, handling and validation of data: Lasting from June 1, 2020 to July 31, 2020, including the following activities:

a) Provincial-level Statistics Offices carry out revision, numbering, inspection, cleaning, handling and validation of district-level data; send explanatory reports to the General Statistics Office: By June 30, 2020;

With respect to businesses required to complete the form No. 1B/DTDN-DS by collecting information by phone, email, etc., provincial-level Statistics Offices must directly input data on the business survey website.

b) The central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys checks and handles data and validates survey results received from provincial-level Statistics Offices on the system or directly at Statistics Offices: By August 1, 2020.

4. Handling and conversion of data collected from General Department of Taxation:  General Statistics Office shall carry out these tasks from January 2020 to July 31, 2020, including the following activities:

a) Studying structures and contents of data fields displayed in the General Department of Taxation (GDT)’s questionnaires.

b) Creating lists, charts or maps of indicators to convert data from GDT to the General Statistics Office’s database.

c) Developing metadata, updating software to convert data from GDT to the General Statistics Office’s database.

d) The General Statistics Office shall cooperate with the GDT in verifying, entering information and dealing with issues arising from the absence or omission of any enterprise in the GDT's database.

e) Examining and verifying actual data from GDT’s database source and results of the business survey.

f) Integrating data from the tax database into results of the business survey.

5. Synthesis, analysis and dissemination of survey results

a) Synthesizing and analyzing results of business surveys of provinces and centrally-affiliated cities: Scheduled from August 1, 2020 to October 10, 2020.

b) Announcing the set of indicators measuring level of business growth in the entire country and specific localities: Scheduled on October 13, 2020.

c) Composing and announcing "Vietnamese business white paper in 2021”: Scheduled in Quarter I/2021.

IX. IMPLEMENTATION RESPONSIBILITIES

1. At the central level:  Establishing the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys that assists the Director of the General Statistics Office in directing the implementation of the business survey, specifically including the following activities:

 (1) Industry Statistics Department shall be responsible for presiding over or taking charge of or cooperating with members of the central-level Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys in preparing survey plans, business survey manuals, providing professional training in, and leading the implementation, guidance, inspection and supervision of the implementation of the entire survey in accordance with the approved plan. Exploiting, handling administrative data collected from the General Department of Taxation and converting them into the annual business survey results. Cooperating with the GDT in verifying, entering information and dealing with issues arising from the absence or omission of any enterprise in the GDT's database.

 (2) Department of National Accounts System shall be responsible for presiding over or cooperating with relevant units in conducting the survey to collect information, dispensing production results to localities to complete the questionnaires applicable to 62 corporations, incorporations performing accounting activities of the entire system as specified in Appendix 1.

 (3) Department of Planning and Finance shall be responsible for guiding and allocating funding for business surveys to provincial-level Statistics Offices and other relevant units.

(4) Department of Legal Affairs and Statistics Inspectorate shall be responsible for checking, supervising and inspecting activities of the business survey carried out by the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys and Statistics Offices of centrally-affiliated cities. The General Department of Statistics shall set up inspection, supervision and audit delegations chaired by the Department of Legal Affairs and the Statistics Inspectorate with the participation of the Department of Planning and Finance, and members of the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys.

 (5) Units belonging to the central Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys in collaboration with the Industry Statistics Department shall conduct the business survey, including the following activities:   Developing a general chart of survey results, logic test algorithms for enterprises and business entities under their control under their scope of assigned duties, participating in the inspection and supervision delegations of the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys, and validating survey results.

 (6) Center of Statistical Informatics Services Number 1 shall be responsible for designing the business survey website, and web-form questionnaires (online questionnaire) on this website; developing an information input program for the form No. 1B/DTDN-DS; developing a logic test program, synthesizing all results of general and specialized business surveys at the request of central Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys; formulating a program for handling data collected from the tax database and consolidating updated ones into the 2020 business survey results.

2. At the local level: Establishing the provincial-level Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys responsible for directing and conducting the business survey within their jurisdiction according to the survey plan and the guidance of the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys.

The Directors of provincial-level Statistical Offices shall be accountable to the Director of the General Statistics Office for conducting the business survey according to the prescribed plan, ensuring the quality of information collected, managing and using business survey funding in a legitimate and effective manner.

In order to ensure effectiveness in the annual business survey, the Directors of provincial-level Statistics Offices should assign appropriate professional departments to closely work with provincial-level Standing Executive Committees on Business Surveys, and shall be mainly responsible for conducting surveys to collect information from enterprises/business entities and managing collected data under their jurisdiction.

X. BUSINESS SURVEY FUNDING

General Statistics Office shall provide funds to afford all activities specified in the approved survey plan. Business survey funding shall be divided into two disbursements according to the 2020 fund allocation plan of the General Statistics Office. Management, use of business survey funding and settlement of business survey costs incurred shall be subject to the Circular No. 109/2016/TT-BTC dated June 30, 2016 of the Ministry of Finance and instructions for settlement of 2020 business survey costs given by the General Statistics Office.

The Chair of the central Standing Executive Committee on Business Surveys, Directors of provincial-level Statistics Offices, the Director of the Department of Planning and Finance, and the Chief of the Office of the General Statistics Office, shall be responsible for strictly managing and effectively using allocated funds to duly carry out the business survey according to the prescribed plan./.

APPENDIX

LIST OF CORPORATIONS, INCORPORATIONS AND BUSINESSES INVOLVED IN ENTIRE-SYSTEM ACCOUNTING ACTIVITES

1. Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group;

2. Vietnam Post Corporation;

3. VNPT Vinaphone Corporation;

4. FPT Corporation;

5. Viettel Group;

6. Viettel Post Joint Stock Corporation;

7. Mobifone Telecom Corporation;

8. Vietnam Electricity Corporation;

9. Bao Viet Corporation;

10. Bao Minh Joint Stock Corporation;

11. Prudential Vietnam Life Insurance Co., Ltd.;

12. PetroVietnam Insurance Corporation;

13. Manulife Vietnam Life Insurance Company;

14. Petrolimex Insurance Joint Stock Company;

15. Post and Telecommunication Insurance Joint Stock Company;

16. Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd.;

17. AIA Vietnam Life Insurance Co., Ltd.;

18. Viet Nam Railways Corporation;

19. Vietnam Airlines Corporation;

20. Airports Corporation of Viet Nam;

21. Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company;

22. Viet Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development;

23. Viet Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade;

24. Viet Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade;

25. Viet Nam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development;

26. Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

27. Sai Gon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

28. Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

29. Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

30. Dong A Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

31. Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

32. Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank;

33. Sai Gon – Ha Noi Joint Stock Commercial Bank;

34. City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank;

35. Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank;

36. Global Petro Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

37. Ocean Commercial One Member Limited Liability Bank;

38. Construction One Member Limited Liability Bank;

39. An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

40. Bao Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

41. Ban Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

42. Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

43. Lien Viet Post Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

44. Vietnam Public Joint Stock Commercial Bank;

45. Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

46. Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

47. Kien Long Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

48. Nam A Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

49. Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

50. Vietnam International Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

51. National Citizen Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

52. Vietnam Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

53. Saigon Bank for Industry and Trade;

54. Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

55. Viet A Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

56. Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank;

57. Viet Nam Bank for Social Policies;

58. Viet Nam Development Bank;

59. Cooperative Bank of Vietnam;

60. Vien Dong Insurance Joint Stock Company;

61. Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Insurance Joint Stock Corporation;

62. Military Insurance Corporation.

[1] Including: Active businesses or enterprises are those performing business and production activities, earning business revenues/ incurring business expenses and VAT in 2019.