One of the new features in the survey of the Provincial Department, Sector, District and City Competitiveness Index (DDCI) in 2024 is that for the first time, the Provincial Statistics Office will participate in the sampling survey. With a team of professional and experienced investigators, it is expected that the survey will be fast, high quality, objective, transparent and highly confidential.
The DDCI index contributes to improving the province's investment and business environment, creating favorable conditions for enterprises to produce and trade. In the photo: Production at Thien Hoang Technical and Commercial Joint Stock Company (Tien Hai Industrial Park)
Ms. Pham Thi Sang, an investigator from the Provincial Statistics Office, started a new day by reviewing the list of businesses and business households in Thai Binh city and Quynh Phu district that are participating in the DDCI scoring to have a plan to approach, propagate, mobilize and guide how to answer the DDCI survey on online software or paper forms. She shared: I have participated in hundreds of sociological surveys, but the first time conducting a DDCI survey, I felt a lot of pressure. Although I was assigned to investigate only 142 forms, it took a lot of time because it was very difficult to contact businesses and business households due to unfamiliarity with the area, and the addresses of many survey participants did not match the data provided. The biggest obstacle is that calling businesses and business households for advice and guidance on conducting DDCI surveys is often refused because they do not answer strange numbers and are afraid of being scammed by high-tech criminals... However, to complete the assigned task, we must be persistent, patient and willing to travel to meet, explain in detail the purpose and meaning of DDCI investigation and guide them to answer the questions in the survey form.
Not only Ms. Sang, all 40 investigators from the Provincial Statistics Office and the statistical offices of districts and cities also make efforts every day to go to the grassroots to carry out the DDCI survey.
Mr. Tang Ba Phuc, Director of the Provincial Statistics Office, said: We were assigned to investigate 2,300 survey forms, including 850 business households, the rest are enterprises in the province. The difficulty in the investigation is that the survey participants are scattered in the localities. To ensure honesty and confidentiality, the investigators must directly meet, propagate, and guide the subjects to perform scoring according to the form. The system of questions with a large amount of information, the nature and level of assessment are also very diverse, so nearly 50% of enterprises and business households have not grasped it, requiring the investigators to spend a lot of time explaining and guiding how to answer, which affects the progress of the investigation.
In order to speed up the progress of the DDCI survey and ensure the quality of the survey, the Provincial Statistics Office has implemented many practical solutions. Accordingly, the Provincial Statistics Office assigned a group of investigators from the Department to be in charge of the survey to collect ballots from districts and cities; a group of investigators from the statistical offices of districts and cities to collect ballots from departments, agencies and sectors to avoid the influence of familiarity and pressure on the investigators. Along with assigning survey areas to ensure convenient organization of the survey, the Department provided a list of enterprises and business households participating in the survey to each investigator and signed a commitment to keep the information confidential. If an investigator reveals the list of subjects participating in the DDCI survey, the Department will cancel the results, request a re-investigation and not pay the survey fee for the ballots whose list is leaked. Investigators directly meet each business and household to advise, guide, and explain clearly so that survey participants understand the purpose and meaning, voluntarily participate in the DDCI survey, and answer the questionnaire objectively, honestly, and validly, avoiding cases of hiring someone to score for them, which do not reflect reality.
Mr. Do Van Ve, Chairman of the Provincial Business Association - the unit in charge of implementing the measurement of the DDCI Index in 2024, said: The Provincial Statistics Office has a team of investigators with good expertise and experience, assigned specific tasks, and a very scientific survey implementation method. We believe that the quality of the DDCI survey this year will be better, closer to reality, helping departments, branches, and localities clearly identify the advantages and limitations in management and operation, thereby finding solutions to enhance competitiveness and improve the investment and business environment of the province.
After more than half a month of conducting the DDCI survey, the Provincial Statistics Office has completed 37% of the number of questionnaires. Despite many difficulties, the unit is directing investigators to make the most of their time to contact, communicate, propagate, mobilize, and guide businesses and business households to participate in the DDCI survey. Investigators are striving to complete the survey of all 2,300 questionnaires as required in October so that the consulting unit has enough time to synthesize, analyze data, create rankings, and report to the Provincial People's Committee to organize the announcement of the DDCI in 2024 in early December 2024 as planned.
Khac Duan
Source: https://baothaibinh.com.vn/tin-tuc/4/209427/tap-trung-hoan-thanh-khao-sat-bo-chi-so-ddci
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