Chương III Luật Thống kê 2003: Điều tra thống kê và báo cáo thống kê

Chapter III

STATISTICAL SURVEYS AND STATISTICAL REPORTS

Section 1. STATISTICAL SURVEYS

Article 11.- The programs on national statistical surveys

1. Basing themselves on the system of national statistical indices and the regime of synthetic statistical reporting regime of the State, the ministries, the ministerial-level agencies, the agencies attached to the Government, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuracy shall propose the statistical surveys planned to be conducted; the central statistical agency shall sum them up and submit to the Prime Minister for decision long-term and annual programs on national statistical surveys.

A program on national statistical surveys covers a list of surveys, surveying duration, assignment of surveying tasks, and conditions to ensure the surveying.

2. The Government shall prescribe the carrying out of surveys outside the national statistical survey programs.

Article 12.- Competence to decide on statistical surveys

1. The Prime Minister shall decide on general statistical surveys.

2. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government, the chief judge of the Supreme People's Court and the chairman of the Supreme People's Procuracy shall, within the scope of their respective tasks and powers, decide on statistical surveys other than general surveys prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.

3. The presidents of the People's Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall, with the scope of their respective tasks and powers, decide on statistical surveys other than the surveys prescribed in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article according to their local management requirements.

Article 13.- Statistical survey plans

1. Each statistical survey must have a plan therefor.

2. A statistical survey plan contains regulations and guidelines regarding the purposes, requirements, scope, objects, units, contents and methods of survey, time and duration of the survey, the surveying agency(ies) and forces, the synthesis, analysis and publicization of survey findings, funding and other material conditions for conducting the survey, responsibilities of concerned organizations and individuals.

3. The persons who decide on the statistical surveys shall also decide on the plans therefor. The statistical survey plans of the ministries, the ministerial-level agencies, the agencies attached to the Government, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuracy or the People's Committees of the provinces or centrally-run cities, before being decided on, shall be professionally evaluated by the central statistical agency.

Article 14.- Funding for statistical surveys

1. The funding for conducting statistical surveys shall be covered with the State budget, depending on the size and nature of each survey.

2. The estimation, management, use and settlement of the funding for statistical surveys shall comply with the provisions of the State Budget Law.

Article 15.- Rights and obligations of survey-conducting agencies and statistical surveyors

1. Statistical survey- conducting agencies shall have the following rights and obligations:

a/ To direct, organize and inspect the implementation of statistical survey plans;

b/ To organize the synthesis, analysis and publicization of statistical survey results.

2. Statistical surveyors shall have the following rights and obligations:

a/ To be trained in statistical survey skills;

b/ To carry out surveys according to the statistical survey plans.

3. The statistical survey-conducting agencies and statistical surveyors shall be held accountable for the objectivity and accuracy of survey information and keep secret such information according to the provisions of this Law.

Article 16.- Rights and obligations of organizations and individuals being respondents in statistical surveys

Organizations and individuals being respondents in statistical surveys shall have the following rights and obligations:

1. To be informed of the statistical survey decisions;

2. To supply true and complete information on schedule as requested by the statistical surveyors;

3. To complain about or denounce acts of violating the legislation on statistical surveys.

Section 2. THE REGIME OF BASIC STATISTICAL REPORTING

Article 17.- The regime of basic statistical reporting

The regime of basic statistical reporting, which covers regulations on objects to be reported, reporting scope and contents, reporting period and deadline, and the report-receiving places, shall be promulgated by competent State bodies in order to gather statistical information from documents and books of initial data.

Article 18.- Competence to promulgate the regime of basic statistical reporting

1. The Prime Minister shall promulgate the regime of basic statistical reporting for the collection of statistical information on national statistical indices, which are assigned to the central statistical agency.

2. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the chief judge of the Supreme People's Court and the chairman of the Supreme People's Procuracy shall promulgate the regimes of basic statistical reporting for the collection of statistical information on national statistical indices, which are assigned to them, and on statistical indices within the branches or domains under their respective management after such regimes are professionally evaluated by the central statistical agency.

Article 19.- Rights and obligations of organizations implementing the regime of basic statistical reporting

Organizations implementing the regime of basic statistical reporting shall have the following rights and obligations:

1. To record, synthesize data, draw up and submit reports according to the regulations of the regime of basic statistical reporting;

2. To draw up truthful, accurate and complete basic statistical reports on the basis of documents and books of initial data; to calculate and synthesize indices strictly according to the contents and methods prescribed by the regime of basic statistical reporting.

3. To complain about administrative decisions, administrative acts when they have grounds to believe that such decisions or acts violate the law provisions on the regime of basic statistical reporting.

Section 3. THE REGIME OF SYNTHETIC STATISTICAL REPORTING

Article 20.- The regime of synthetic statistical reporting

The regime of synthetic statistical reporting, which covers regulations on reporting objects, reporting scope and contents, the reporting period and deadline, the report-receiving places, shall be promulgated by competent State bodies to sum up statistical data from basic statistical reports, financial statements, survey findings and other information sources.

Article 21.- Competence to promulgate the regimes of synthetic statistical reporting

1. The Prime Minister shall promulgate the regime of synthetic statistical reporting for application to the ministries, the ministerial-level agencies and the agencies attached to the Government.

2. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies shall promulgate the regime of synthetic statistical reporting for application to the professional agencies of the People's Committees of the provinces, centrally run cities, rural districts, urban districts, provincial capitals and cities, which belong to the domains or branches under their respective management after such regimes are professionally evaluated by the central statistical agency.

3. The chief judge of the Supreme People's Court and the chairman of the Supreme People's Procuracy shall promulgate the regimes of synthetic statistical reporting for application to the system of courts or procuracies after such regimes are professionally evaluated by the central statistical agency.

Article 22.- Rights and obligations of the agencies implementing the regime of synthetic statistical reporting

The agencies implementing the regime of synthetic statistical reporting shall have the following rights and obligations:

1. To organize the collection and synthesis of data, to draw up and submit reports according to the regulations of the regime of synthetic statistical reporting;

2. To draw up truthful, accurate and complete synthetic statistical reports on the basis of data of statistical surveys, financial statements, basic statistical reports and other information sources; to compute and synthesize indices strictly according to the contents and methods prescribed by the regime of synthetic statistical reporting.

3. To complain about administrative decisions, administrative acts when they have grounds to believe that such decisions or acts violate the law provisions on the regime of synthetic statistical reporting.

Article 23.- Rights to exploit and use statistical databases

1. Centralized statistical organizations shall have the rights to exploit and use initial statistical databases of the agencies implementing the regime of synthetic statistical reporting. The agencies implementing the regime of synthetic statistical reporting shall have to supply information belonging to the initial statistical databases under their respective management at the requests of the centralized statistical organizations.

2. The agencies implementing the regime of synthetic statistical reporting shall be provided in return by the centralized statistical agencies with synthetic statistical information and shall be entitled to exploit relevant general statistical databases of the centralized statistical agencies.