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6.3. Step 3 – Review data sources: List available datasets and reports

Objectives
- List and summarize available datasets and reports, such as Statistical Yearbooks,
the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS), Nutrition Surveillance
Profile/Report, socio-economic development reports for province/regions, annual
reports of various Provincial Departments, and outcome reports for provincial/
regionial economic strategies. These sources can be utilized to extract relevant
data and information.

Outputs

- A list of reliable sources of information, especially relevant datasets and reports,
including the full name, organizational ownership, contents of the dataset, year of
collection, sector, sub-sector, sources, etc (Table 2).

Common instructions for application

- Organization of datasets and reports should be organized by sector.

- Prioritize publicly available datasets and reports, preferably those that include
time series data to illustrate changes or trends over time.

- At the sub-national level, socio-economic development reports, annual reports
from various departments, and similar documents can serve as reliable sources
of information (see Annex 1 for details on datasets and reports available at the
national and sub-national levels).

- Document all relevant details about the datasets and reports including the full
name, organizational ownership, contents of the dataset, year of collection,
sector, sub-sector, sources, etc.

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