Vietnam\'s first national data warehouse has been opened - and it is available on-line, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced today.
"This is the first time the country\'s statistics have been collected and standardised," said GSO director Do Thuc.
GSO deputy director Nguyen Bich Lam said the warehouse, which included all information on Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys in 2004, 2006 and 2008, was expected to improve data input and management.
"The user-friendly data warehouse will help enhance national supervision," he said.
Lam said Vietnam already had a lot of statistical data, but it was scattered all over the country and was not synchronised. This made it difficult to use.
The data warehouse is available in both Vietnamese and English at www.gso.gov.vn/khodulieuMS.
It will continue to be updated and extended. More data warehouses will be developed when the opportunity arises.
