LAO_LSB_EC-2013_v1.0
Economic Census 2013
EC 2013 for Economic Census
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Lao PDR | Lao |
Enterprise Establisment Census
The economic census planned to conduct every 5 year. First one had been done in the year 2006 and the second Economics Census was conducted in 2013
The Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB) has conducted some small enterprise survey since 1997, but the findings of those surveys cannot fully fulfill the objectives and they have been mainly used for the calculation of the National Accounts (the Gross Domestic Product). Moreover, those surveys were based on the sample frame of the enterprise registration which is incomplete. The findings therefore could not capture the precise situation of the economic activities of both public and private entities at national as well as provincial level. Finally, the size of the sample for the annual enterprise survey is only 1 500 to 1 800, while the quarterly one is only 280 samples.
The the first ecoomic census was conducted in 2006, this the first large enterprise survey in Lao PDR. The Economic Census is conducted with interval of time. The second economic census was conducted in the year 2013. This Economic Census is collected information from all business entities across the country that have permanent location and are located in the village with road access and urban villages. The interview does not take place in the business entities located in the village without road access and rural villages, and only keep a record of those business entities. The survey is interview-based approach.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
The Economic Census 2013 has the following units of analysis: establishments/enterprise, state organizations, and nonprofit organizations.
Version 3 -Edited and anonymzed dataset, final version for public distribution
2015-05-04
The scope of the economic census includes:
Enterprise of individual, general shareholding enterprise, shareholding enterprise limited, company limited, oneholding company,public company, mixed company, State-owner enterprise,collective enterprise; size of employees, register forms;
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Private Sector and Trade | World Bank |
| Macroeconomics & Growth | World Bank |
National
Urban, Rural
Regional:North, Central, South
Every business entity either formal or informal including shops that operate any economic activities (based on ISIC system) and non-profit and non-government organizations.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Lao Statistics Bureau | Ministry of Planning and Investment |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Government of Lao PDR | GOL |
The quetionnaires were used in the economic census 2013 is taken from the existing questionnaires of thr economic census 2006. Some part of the 2006 economic census were upgraded by doing consultatio with with Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Industry and Commerce, due to many part of the information collected concerned with two minisstries mentioned.
After the census, the data was processed at the LSB applying modern techniques such as the scanner, statistical software like SPSS and data base software like SQL. To assure that the data are internationally-comparable, ISIC version 4 was used for the classification of the economic activities.
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2013-05-10 | 2013-05-30 |
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| Lao Statistics Bureau | Ministry of Planning and Ivestment | LSB |
| Department of Tax | Ministry of Finance | DOT |
| Economic Research Institute for Trade | Ministry of Industry and Commerce | ERIT |
Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:
a) Office editing and coding
b) During data entry
c) Structure checking and completeness
d) Secondary editing
e) Structural checking of SPSS data files
| Name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Vice Minister | Lao Statistics Bureau | https://www.lsb.gov.la |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes |
The Lao Statistics Laws provided : Article 41: Restriction/Prohibition for the Statistics Organization and its Staffs The statistics organizations and its staff are not allowed to take any action as follows: 1. Disclose and disseminate individual data, legal person or any organization which are defined in the article 24 of this law without the permission from respective concerned organization; 2. Do something fictional and counterfeit to the official statistics and individual and legal person or organization for the private benefits or create any losses for others intentionally; 3. Use the statistics data and report that are received from individual and legal person or any organization in country and abroad which operate any activity in Lao PDR as a reference for business inspection and auditing purpose or use for tax or duties calculation; 4. Break statistics ethics/principles; 5. Other actions against the laws. |
The Lao Statistics Laws provided :
Article 43: Restriction/Prohibition for the individual and organization using
statistics
The individual and organization who is the user of statistics
data supplier is not allowed to take any action underneath:
The user of the data acknowledges that the Lao Statistics Bureau bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
(c) 2013, Lao Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Lao PDR
| Name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Service division | SD | https://www.lsb.gov.la |
LAO_LSB_EC-2013_m_EN_v1.0
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mr.Viengkham SOMSAATH | VKS | LSB | Database Management |
| Mr.Khamtanh BOUNMANY | KHB | Freelance | Consultant |
2015-05-04
Version 1 (May 2015) - first DDI documentation of Economic Census 2013