LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
PEACE INDEPENDENCE DEMOCRACY UNITY PROSPERITY
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Prime Minister's Office No. 140 /PM
Decree
On Organization and Activities of the National Statistical System
-In reference to the Law on the Government of the Lao PDR No. 01/95, dated 8/3/95,
-In reference to the proposal made by the Committee for Planning and Cooperation,
-In reference to the agreement reached in the Government cabinet meeting held on 26/06/2002.
The Prime Minister hereby decrees
PART I
General Provisions
Article 1: Objectives
The objective of this decree is to enable statistical activity management under a framework of a national statistical system with quality and uniform standards for the whole country with a view to, for each period of time, generate information on the achievements of socioeconomic development in the Lao PDR. Such information will serve as basic data for preparing and monitoring plans and policies, as well as for providing inputs into researches on socioeconomic development for the government and other users.
Article 2: Importance of Statistics
Statistics is an important tool for monitoring, and evaluating the implementation of the socioeconomic development plan put in place by the government. It is the indispensable basis for the preparation of strategic plans, policy making, and project plans at different periods of time. It is a yardstick for measuring the economic growth, and also an instrument for checking information consistency and macro economic balance in each period of time.
Article 3: The National Statistical System
The National Statistical System is a system under which collection, collating, analysis and dissemination of official statistics related to ones corresponding sector are carried out based on the statistical science, uniform codes and nomenclatures, and consensus reporting system. The National Statistical System of the Lao PDR is a system that possesses organizational organs embedded in and accountable to ministries ministry-equivalent agencies, provincial , municipality, special zone, district and village authorities, and different production units.
Article 4: Organizational Structure of the National Statistical System
The organizational system of the National Statistics in Lao PDR comprises of:
4.1 The National Statistical Center (NSC) is an organ of the Committee for Planning and Cooperation. The organizational status of the NSC equals to a department of a line ministry. NSC is the Government core agency in the coordination, conducting of studies on implementation and management of all national statistic activities in Lao PDR.
4.2 Systems of statistical organizations in the line ministries, ministry-equivalent agencies, provincial, municipal, special zone, district and village authorities, production and service units. These statistical organizations consist of statistics divisions or sections or statistics units in the sectors entrusted with a task to collect information for meeting information needs of each level, as well as for the management and administration at the macro level, at sect oral, local, production and services unit levels.
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