A smart operating centre which connects data on traffic, education and health in the southern province of Bình Phước.— VNA/VNS Photo Minh Quyết

Deputy Prime Minister Trần Lưu Quang has approved the Project to build a National Statistical Database.

The project aims to build, manage, use and update the National Statistical Database (NSD) in order to provide complete, accurate and timely statistical information to meet management and direction requirements of the Party, National Assembly and Government, ministries, sectors and localities as well as meeting the needs of using statistical information of domestic and foreign information users.

The project is expected to bring the country’s statistics to an advanced level in the ASEAN region by 2030, becoming a modern statistical system in the world by 2045.

Under the project, the statistics sector strives to perfect institutions regulating data sources for statistical work; connecting and providing data, statistical information and administrative data from ministries, sectors and localities to the NSD by 2030.

By 2030, all ministries, sectors, provinces and cities will have to complete information technology technical infrastructure for statistical databases following standards for data and statistical information, and connect to the technical infrastructure of the NSD.

By 2030, shared applications will be deployed in 80 per cent of statistical database of ministries, sectors and localities.

At the same time, ministries and branches will connect and automatically send national statistical indicators and survey data under the national statistical survey programme to the NSD.

All localities will also connect and automatically send statistical indicators at the provincial, district and commune levels to the NSD.

The project is scheduled to be implemented nationwide between 2024 and 2030.

To achieve the goals, the project offers specific solutions for improving institutions, coordinating with ministries, sectors and localities, building information technology infrastructure, applying science and technology, strengthening international cooperation and mobilising expert and business participation.

Additionally, the project plans to review the current regulatory system, evaluate the inadequacies and difficulties when deploying the NSD as well as propose amendments to the Law on Statistics and issue guiding documents to form a legal framework for the operation of the database. — VNS