GSO hosts high-level forum on ASEAN Community Statistical System
The General Statistics Office (GSO), as ASEAN Chair in the field of statistics this year, hosted a High-level Forum on the ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) and Vietnam’s statistical system in the form of video conference on December 10.
Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong speaks at the event (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The General Statistics Office (GSO), as ASEANChair in the field of statistics this year, hosted a High-level Forum on the ASEANCommunity Statistical System (ACSS) and Vietnam’s statistical system in theform of video conference on December 10.
2020 marks a decade of ACSS, which was founded in 2011 and has sincemade every effort to provide relevant, timely, and comparable ASEAN statisticsin support of evidence-based policy and decision making and to enhance thestatistical capacity of member states and the ASEAN Secretariat.
In his remarks at the online forum, Deputy Minister of Planning andInvestment Tran Quoc Phuong said statistics play an increasingly important rolein human lives, particularly at a time when the world is experiencingunpredictable uncertainty.
The Vietnamese Government and the Ministry of Planning and Investmenthave backed the GSO in accelerating international integration and expandinginternational cooperation in its field of endeavour. It helps Vietnam obtain updateson, share knowledge about, and access advanced statistical methods to improvethe effectiveness of operations.
GSO Director General Nguyen Thi Huong said the office proposed thegrouping to together improve the capacity of ACSS to better meet increasingdemand for data.
She added that ACSS has popularised more than 700 statistical indexes onthe website of the ASEAN Statistics Agency (ASEANstats).
The ACSS Committee informed that it has adopted a concept paper on theuse of big data to improve ACSS’s official statistical data.
The ACSS Committee held its 10th session online on December 8and 9 under the co-chair of the GSO Director General Nguyen Thi Huong and Director General of the Department of Economic Planning andStatistics of Brunei Hajah Mariah Haji Yahya.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its partners will work together to compile statistics for the period up until 2015 at a meeting which opened in Hanoi on December 8.
The third session of the ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) Committee has adopted enabling mechanisms for comparable ASEAN statistics, clearer policies and guidelines on data sharing, confidentiality and enhanced dissemination and communication of ASEAN Statistics.
The 10th session of ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) will be held on December 8 to 10 by the Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) and ASEAN Secretariat.
The 10th session of ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) took place in the form of a video conference on December 9. The session was held by the Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) and ASEAN Secretariat.
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Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) 
