On 30th July 2018, the General Director of the General Statistics Office issued Decision No 592/QD-TCTK on the 2019 Labor force survey, along with its survey plan. The purpose of the survey was to collect the information on 2019 labor market participation from those people who are 15 years old and above currently residing in Vietnam; regarded as a basis for aggregating and compiling national statistical indicators on labor, employment, unemployment, and income. These results would support ministers and branches assessing and comparing the changes in the 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 considered as a basis to develop and plan policies on human resources development; activities of investment, production, and business accordant with the development trend on the labor market. Besides, approach and apply the new recommendations of the International Labor Organization on labor and employment, especially in terms of “labor underutilization” into Vietnamese practice to meet international comparison. Data are aggregated quarterly for the national, urban, and rural, six socio-economic regions, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and annual data for the 63 provinces.
This report would present major findings of the labor force survey in the quarter 3 of 2019 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 2019 labor force survey has received technical supports from International Labor Organization (ILO). GSO highly appreciates this supports and wishes to continuously receive more supports from ILO in succeeding surveys.
GSO hopes that report will meet the requirements of basic information for social-economic policymakers, especially for those who are engaging in 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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