Overview of the conference
On the afternoon of January 9th, 2019, at the headquarter of the General Statistics Office (GSO), a training conference on the use of computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) in the survey and monitoring of consumer prices chaired by Mr. Vu Thanh Liem – Deputy Director General of GSO was held with the attendance of Chiefs of Industrial/Commercial Statistics Bureaus under 63 provincial statistical offices and representatives of relevant departments under the GSO. This was an important training program for the survey and monitoring of consumer prices in 2019 presided over by the Price Statistics Department (GSO).
At the Conference, specialists of the Price Statistics Department presented the following contents: Overview of the use of CAPI in the survey; Practice of the use of the software for enumerators; Introduction and guidance on the use and practice of the software for supervisors. The Conference also spent time for participants to exchange and answer questions, and highlight the things needed to be paid attention during the survey.
Accordingly, to successfully apply smart devices in the survey and monitoring of consumer prices, provincial statistical offices should have a detailed preparation at each survey point and each commodity; make the image list of commodities by each enumeration area of the province; organize training for enumerators in the survey of consumer prices using smart devices in both theory and practice. Provincial statistical offices should ensure timely sending of information about the network, review of enumerators and the image list of commodities. In addition to the tasks to be implemented in the coming time, provincial statistical offices should note the list of 23 provinces that will conduct price surveys with CAPI from May 2019 and 20 provinces that will do it from September 2019. Before the official implementation in the provinces, there will be 4 provinces to conduct parallel tests of two forms: CAPI and the printed questionnaire
The Price Statistics Department should focus on the following three major tasks: (1) Supporting provinces during the implementation of the survey and responding to questions and problems when enumerators conduct the field survey (if any); (2) Entering the network and the weight of provinces in the monitoring program carefully and accurately; (3) Acquiring opinions from provincial statistical offices for further improving the CAPI program to be able to better implement in the next phase.
Source: Figures and Events Journal