Latest organizational structure of General Statistics Office of Vietnam

Latest organizational structure of General Statistics Office of Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. The General Statistics Office of Vietnam is an agency under which Ministry?

The General Statistics Office of Vietnam is an agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, performing the functions of advising and assisting the Minister of Planning and Investment in state management on statistics, coordinating statistical activities, organizing statistical activities, and providing socio-economic statistical information to agencies, organizations, and individuals in accordance with law.

Thus, the General Statistics Office of Vietnam is an agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

(Clause 1, Article 1 of Decision 10/2020/QD-TTg)

2. The latest organizational structure of General Statistics Office of Vietnam 

The General Statistics Office of Vietnam is organized into a vertical system from the central to local levels, ensuring the principle of centralization and unity.

- Central statistical office

(1) Department of Methods, Regime, and Statistical Quality Management;

(2) Statistics Department General and Dissemination of Statistical Information;

(3) Department of National Accounts System;

(4) Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Statistics;

(5) Department of Statistics for Industry and Construction;

(6) Trade and Services Statistics Department;

(7) Price Statistics Department;

(8) Department of Population and Labor Statistics;

(9) Department of Social and Environmental Statistics;

(10) Department of Foreign Statistics and International Cooperation;

(11) Department of Organization and Personnel;

(12) Department of Financial Planning;

(13) Legal and Statistical Inspection Department;

(14) Office;

(15) Department of Data Collection and Statistical Information Technology Application;

(16) Institute of Statistical Science;

(17) Journal of Numbers and Facts;

(18) Statistical Publishing House;

(19) College of Statistics;

(20) College of Statistics II.

The organizations specified from (1) to (15) are administrative organizations that assist the Director General in performing the state management function; the organizations specified from (16) to (20) are non-business organizations.

The General Department Office is organized into 6 divisions; The Department of Data Collection and Application of Statistical Information Technology is organized into 4 divisions and 4 centers.

The Department of Data Collection and Application of Statistical Information Technology has legal status, its own seal, its own head office, and can open an account at the State Treasury in accordance with law.

- Local statistical office

+ The Department of Statistics in the provinces and centrally-run cities (collectively referred to as the Provincial Statistics Office) is under the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

The Provincial Statistics Office is organized into 5 rooms.

+ Sub-departments of statistics in districts, towns, and provincial cities; The Regional Statistical Office (collectively referred to as the District Statistical Office) belongs to the Provincial Statistical Office.

Provincial Statistical Offices, district Statistical Sub-Departments have their own legal status and seals; each has its own head office and is allowed to open an account at the State Treasury in accordance with law.

(Article 3 of Decision 10/2020/QD-TTg)

3. Regulations on the leadership of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam in Vietnam

Specifically, Article 4 of Decision 10/2020/QD-TTg stipulates the leadership of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam as follows:

- The General Statistics Office of Vietnam has a General Director and no more than 04 Deputy General Directors.

- The General Director and Deputy General Director shall be appointed, relieved from duty, and dismissed by the Minister of Planning and Investment in accordance with law.

The General Director is the head of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, responsible to the Minister of Planning and Investment and to the law for all activities of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

The Deputy General Directors are responsible to the General Director and to the law for their assigned tasks.

The General Director shall prescribe the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the units under the General Statistics Office of Vietnam and shall appoint, relieve, remove, resign, and suspend the work of heads and deputy heads of units under the General Statistics Office of Vietnam according to the provisions of law and decentralization of the Minister of Planning and Investment.

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