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 III
Principles and liabilities in reporting statistical information
Article 8: Principles in reporting statistical information
Statistical activities should be implemented in a uniform manner for the whole country based on the following principles:
8.1. Ensuring the uniformity in the report which shall comprise of the following contents:
- Table system;
- Measurement units;
- Principles and computation methods for socioeconomic and financial statistics;
- Nomenclatures, classification and coding system;
- Reporting Period for different type of statistics.
8.2. Principles in undertaking surveys in the Lao PDR
All state enterprises, joint-venture business entities, domestic and foreign private Business entities, agencies and households that want to conduct a sample survey or undertake data collection to seek information on socioeconomic situation or for marketing purposes shall discuss or deliberate with the National Statistical Center in order to receive technical advice on principles for undertaking a survey in accordance with the correct statistical methodology especially with respect the uniformity in classifications for different nomenclatures, principles in survey design and sampling method used;
8.3. Principles in disseminating official statistics
Official statistics used in planning, policy making and monitoring the status of the socioeconomic development must be subject to a system of data collection, processing and analysis based on statistical science and must be disseminated with the consent of and justification from the national statistical system.
Article 9: Liabilities in reporting statistical information
9.1 Line ministries, ministry-equivalent agencies, provinces, municipality, special zone, districts and villages have the strict liabilities to prepare statistical reports for submission to the Committee for Planning and Cooperation (National Statistics Centre) as determined in this regulation;
9.2. Statistical reports must be sent by express mail or directly to statistical organizations at each level. Upon receiving such statistical reports, Post Office shall facilitate and pay special attention for delivering those statistical reports;
9.3. Line ministries, ministry-equivalent agencies, provinces, municipality, special zone, districts and villages are responsible for organizing the implementation of such reporting regime, while they shall also carry out a check for completeness, accuracy, and give their signature, and stamp. Statistical figures used in any work must be consistent with the reported figures. It is prohibited to adjust or change statistical figures without prior approval from higher authorities.
Article 10: Liabilities of business units in reporting statistics
10.1. State enterprises, joint-venture business entities, domestic and foreign private business entities that operate business activities have the liabilities to report and supply statistical information on their own business operations to statistical organizations for information in each period of time by using their own budget for operating such statistical system;
10.2. All enterprises entailed foreign investment which already operate a statistical system according to the international principles and regulations must also comply with the national statistics system of the Lao PDR;
10.3. Chief accountants of state enterprises, joint-venture business entities, domestic and foreign private business entities are responsible for guiding and supervising statistics activities, and certifying the accuracy of the statistical reports as specified in the Law on Enterprise Accounting No. 12/90/SPS, dated 29./11/1990.
Article 11: Liabilities of the citizen
Each citizen has the liabilities to make contribution in supplying statistical information to the national statistics system asapproved by the government. In other cases outside the national statistics system, the contribution of the citizen must be on voluntary basis.
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