Accordingly, the General of Statistics Denmark will support the General Statistics Office of Vietnam with 6.5 million DKK (about 1 million USD) to carry out a project on improving the quality of official statistics.
The signing ceremony. (Photo: The Embassy of Denmark in Vietnam)
The 30-month project will focus on using administrative data for producing population, migration, and education statistics; and optimising chances for using big data to produce statistics and build the first economic - environmental accounting system for Vietnam.
At the signing ceremony, Danish Ambassador H.E. Kim Højlund Christensen said that the agreement was a very important instrument for Vietnam and Denmark to start our good cooperation in supporting Vietnam to improve the quality of its national statistics.
Accordingly, Statistics Denmark will work closely with the GSO and other relevant Vietnamese ministries to exchange and share with them Danish expertise, experiences and knowledge gained after many years of study and practices in this area.”
Meanwhile, Director General of Statistics Denmark Birgitte Anker expressed her hope for effective cooperation with the GSO, and that this partnership will provide more information about the Vietnamese society, serving as a basis for making evidence-based decisions and monitoring international agenda like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Director General of GSO Nguyen Thi Huong, said that the GSO committed to closely collaborate with relevant ministries and agencies in Vietnam and Statistics Denmark to implement this project successfully and thereby strengthen the capacity and improve the quality of our official statistics.
This project would also contribute to future sustainable development of the country, especially when the GSO is implementing Vietnam Statistical Development Strategy for the period 2021-2030 with a vision towards 2045, she stressed.
Since 2015, Vietnam and Denmark has engaged in Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) within health, education, food safety and recently within statistics with the purpose of promoting sustainable and responsible growth, jobs and prosperity in Vietnam.
Within the SSC framework, the Danish public authorities have established a partnership where they can support their Vietnamese partner ministries with expertise and facilitate transfer of Danish know-how and experiences relevant to local priority issues, local conditions and needs./.