Ministry of Industry and Commerce
Department of Industry and Handicraft
EIF Tier-2 Project (Component B):
Strengthening Industrial Statistics in
the Lao PDR
The PRC Meeting 10th November 2016
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Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs)
Lao are enjoy a high rate of economics growth
 Growth without plan lead into unbalance growth
 Plan without data & statistics lead to wrong direction
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Capacity enhancement project on industrial
statistics in Lao PDR.
Objective
 Building capacity to produce international
compatible industrial statistics and policy
formulation
 Produce industrial statistics
 Industrial policy formulation
 DoIH continues producing timely industrial
statistics
Capacity enhancement project on industrial statistics
in Lao PDR.
Goal
 MoIC by DoIH have a unit and staff with capability to
produce industrial statistics, analysis, formulate
industrial policy
 Adequate IT infrastructure for industrial statistics
developments
 Main statistics for industrial economics planning
produced
 Report on analytical and policy on industrial
developments
 Quarterly Industrial Index Production (IIP) produced
Capacity enhancement project on industrial
statistics in Lao PDR.
1st year, 1 half
 Analysis organization structure, environments,
infrastructure of MoIC and DoIH
 Analysis industrial economics database and statistics
exiting
 Create action plan
 Equipments procured (computer, laptop, printer and
accessories)
 Statistics team setup (4 DoIH officer)
 Designed registered manufacturing establishments
questionnaire
Capacity enhancement project on industrial
statistics in Lao PDR.
List of equipments provided to DoIH head office + 18 provincial
Item
Quantity
Desktop Computer
22
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
22
Notebook Computer
4
Printer
19
Projector
1
Photo copy
1
External Hard Disk
3
Capacity enhancement project on industrial
statistics in Lao PDR.
1st year, 2 half
 Conducted registered manufacturing
establishments survey for listing
Capacity enhancement project on industrial
statistics in Lao PDR.
2st year, 1 half
2015 industry survey
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Survey frame designed
- census on Large + Medium (522+727=1,249)
- sampling on Small + Micro (288+312=600)
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Questionnaire designed & produced
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Enumerator team and supervisor team setup
- 56 DoIH provincial officer enumerator
- 5 DoIH + 1 LSB officer supervisor
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Three regions enumerator training (Vientiane, Sawannakhet,
Luangphabang)
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Supervisor training in Vientiane
Capacity enhancement project on industrial
statistics in Lao PDR.
Questionnaire design to support
 Sustainable development indicators (SDGs);
 Policy formulation
 Manufacturing Value Added
 Supply and Use Tables
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
2016 Industry survey purpose
 To collect the information on the existing manufacturing establishment
organizational structure and to generate the statistics for the formal sector of
economic activities according to the Lao Standard Industrial Classification
(LSIC).
 To identify the production of goods and services in the reference year 2015
and to generate, analyze and present the goods and services statistics in the
tabular form according to Central Product Classification (CPC).
 To produce the employment statistics.
 To provide the investment in manufacturing establishment in the country such
as investment in fixed assets, raw material consumption, fuel and electricity
consumption and sales of goods, stocks etc.
 To provide the estimate of output and input in manufacturing establishment
 To provide the information on investment in control of environment pollution
 To identify the problems and its effects in the manufacturing industries.
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
2st year, 2 half
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Develop manufacturing establishments database system
Develop industry survey database system
Database user training
Database system administrator training
2015 Industry survey
 Survey conduct
 Data entry
 Statistics and tabulation designed
 Statistics report produce
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
3st year, 1st quarter
IIP Survey design
 Sample frame design
 Industry and commodity selection
 Listing of sample
 Weight calculation
 Data entry and database design
 Questionnaire design
 Data collection process and mechanism design
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
3st year, quarter 2-3
IIP survey
 Enumerator and supervisor team setup
 Enumerator & Supervisor & Data entry operator training
 Questionnaire and manual produced
 Data collection, tabulation
 Industrial Index Production produced
 Industrial development report produce using
available industrial statistics
 Project seminar
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Training
On-the-job training, learning by doing, and ad-hoc internal workshop
through all project period. Content of training and workshop are lists as
follow
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Basic statistics training, sampling and estimation, SNA statistics
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Analysis and Industrial developments training : Industry developments
approach, Industry developments master plan, Developments
Strategy, Action plan, SWOT analysis
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IIP Developments training : IIP Conceptual, Commodity and Industry
selection, Commodity and Industry weight calculation, IIP calculation,
Contribution calculation, IIP analysis and use
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IT training user-administrator training
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Throughout the project 5 modules have developed
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Human resource developments
IT infrastructure developments
Database and database system developments
Industrial statistics developments
Unit and organization to carry forward the industrial
statistics production
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Throughout out the project we have 3 milestone roadmap
 1st milestone – Develop infrastructure and create
manufacturing establishments the population frame
 2nd milestone – Conduct the 2015 industry survey to produce
main statistics for economics and industry planning
 3rd milestone – Produce a timelines statistics a quarter IIP to grasp
industrial production timeliness
By the end of 2016 the project will touchdown second milestone
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Encouraging factors and obstacle
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DoIH staff have good education and competencies
Counterparts eager to learn and appreciated to have technical and
knowledge transfer
All level from officer to administrator are support and encourage the
project
MoIC and DoIH perceived that the project help in reduce workload
and benefit in develop industrial database and statistics
Obstacles
 Communication and transportation are weak
 IT network and internet access are weak
Capacity enhancement project on
industrial statistics in Lao PDR.
Challenges 2017 workload
 2017 project goals to produce quarterly IIP with
have to spend 1 quarter to design the survey and
system
 The project have 2 quarter left to survey and
produce a quarterly plus strengthening policy
formulation capability
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