The investigation of consumer prices in Vietnam during 2025-20300 shall be carried out according to the time schedule in Decision No. 1708/QD-BKHDT dated August 5, 2024.
Period for investigation of consumer prices in Vietnam during 2025-2030 (Internet image)
The Minister of Planning and Investment has promulgated Decision 1708/QD-BKHDT on the Plan for the Consumer Price investigation for the period of 2025-2030 (hereinafter referred to as "the Plan"). The investigation will be conducted across 63 provinces and centrally-managed cities with representative goods and services consumed by households according to the List of goods and services representing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the base year 2024; the goods and services in the List of goods and services according to the International Comparison Program (ICP). Specifically, the timeline is as follows:
No. | Content | Implementation Time |
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1 | Develop investigation plan | April - July 2024 |
2 | Develop investigation forms | April - July 2024 |
3 | Develop processes for summarizing and chaining price indices | April - August 2024 |
4 | Develop the structure of the consumer price index | April - September 2024 |
5 | Develop the output results summary templates | June - September 2024 |
6 | Develop various investigation guidance documents | June - December 2024 |
7 | Calculate weighting coefficients | January - March 2025 |
8 | Develop and test software for data collection, managing/updating networks, checking, processing, summarizing output results | Before May 2025 |
9 | Update software (if any) | From 2026 |
10 | Review, check, complete the List of goods and services, and investigation network for official investigations starting from 2025 | April - September 2025 |
11 | Print documents (if any) | Before September 2025 |
12 | Central and provincial training courses | Before October 2025 |
13 | Data collection | - Monthly, starting from October 2025. Housing rental prices specifically begin from May 2025. - The consumer price investigation plan for 2020 - 2025, issued under Decision 1134/QD-TCTK, will be carried out until the end of October 2025. |
14 | Data review and approval | Monthly, starting from October 2025. Housing rental prices specifically begin from May 2025 |
15 | Summarize output results | Monthly, starting from October 2025 |
16 | Prepare content for CPI publication | Monthly, starting from October 2025 |
17 | Build a list of goods and services for the new investigation period | 2028-2029 |
18 | investigation local base prices to prepare for the base year changeover for the next period | January - December 2030 |
19 | Update the International Comparison Program ICP plan | As per ADB's plan |
(1) Purpose of the investigation
The consumer price investigation is conducted for the following purposes:
- Compile the Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicators within the National Statistics Indicator System. Ensure information on the consumer price index to serve the Communist Party, National Assembly, Government of Vietnam, ministries, sectors, and localities in their management, administration, and policy-making on wages, interest rates, financial and monetary management, and economic-social development planning, as well as calculating some aggregated statistical indicators in comparable prices;
- Meet information needs on consumer price fluctuations of the public, businesses, production and business establishments, and other users of information;
- Provide information on consumer prices as a basis for compiling the Spatial Cost of Living Index (SCOLI), serving the work of assessing poverty alleviation programs and calculating Human Development Index (HDI);
- Collect information on the price levels of representative goods and services according to the International Comparison Program (ICP) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to calculate purchasing power parity (PPP), thereby assessing poverty-wealth relations among countries in the region.
(2) Requirements of the investigation
The consumer price investigation must ensure the following requirements:
- The work of organizing, collecting information, processing data, summarizing, and storing investigation information must be conducted seriously in accordance with the conformable of the Plan;
- Ensure complete, accurate, prompt information collection, targeting the correct investigation units, and investigating the correct items as specified in the Plan;
- Confidentiality of information collected from investigation subjects as per the Statistics Law;
- Manage and use the investigation budget in compliance with current policies, employing thrift and efficiency;
- investigation results must meet the purpose requirements of the investigation, ensuring international comparability.
(According to section I of the Plan)
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