On 16th August 2019, the General Director of General Statistics Office issued Decision No 1260/QĐ-TCTK on the 2020 Labor force survey, along with its survey plan. The purpose of the survey was to collect the information on 2020 labor market participation from those people who are 15 years old and above currently residing in Vietnam; regarded as a basic for aggregating and compiling national statistical indicators on labor, employment, unemployment and income. This result would support for ministries and branches assessing and comparing the changes in labor market among quarters within the reference year as well as with those of previous annual labor force survey conducted by GSO. These results would be also considered as a basic to develop and plan policies on human resource development; activities of investment, production and business accordant with the development trend on labor market. In addition, approach and apply the new recommendations of International Labor Organization on labor and employment, especially in term of “labor underutilization” into Vietnamese practice to meet international comparison. Data are aggregated on a quarterly basis for the national, urban and rural, six socioeconomic regions, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and annual data for the 63 provinces.
This report would present major findings of labor force survey in quarter 2 2020 in order to provide information on labor and employment to users. As a result of the survey coverage on labor market only relating to those people who were 15 years and old, currently residing in Vietnam at the survey period, therefore, the indicators on labor and employment presented in this report would mainly be calculated for those persons aged 15 and above. However, to meet the needs of
researching, assessing and analyzing information about the labor market and employment situation for the working age (including males aged from 15 to 59 and females aged from 15 to 54). This report would also provide some basic indicators on labor and employment for this group.
The 2020 labor force survey has received technical supports of International Labor Organization (ILO). GSO highly appreciates these supports and wishes to continuously receive more supports from ILO in succeeding surveys.
GSO hopes that report will meet requirements of basic information for social economic policy makers, especially for those who are engaging into the field of labor and employment. We warmly welcome all constructive comments from readers.
Sincere thanks./.
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Department of Population and Labor Statistics, General Statistics Office, 54 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Dong Da district, Ha Noi.
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