LABOR MARKET INFORMATION IN

VIETNAM’S PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

SERVICE

Ngo Xuan Lieu

Department of Employment – MOLISA - Vietnam

MAIN CONTENTS

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LABOR MARKET INFORMATION (LMI) IN VIETNAM

LMI System (the role of PES as producer and user of LMI)

Annually survey on the current status and labor demand of

enterprises

Quarterly Labor Force Survey

Basic LMI indicators

LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

LMI Network of Vietnam’s PES

Real time analysis from LMI Network

Statistic data on labor demand and number of applicants

Labor demand by enterprise’s types

Top provinces/cities that have highest demand of labor

Trend of labor demand and supply analysized based on LMI

Network databases

ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

WAY FORWARD

LMI IN VIETNAM

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LFS

Business Establishment Survey

Record, update households’ information

(Labour supply)

Record, update enterprisess’ information

(Labour demand)

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LMI IN VIETNAM

COLLECTING AGENCY Department of Employment, MOLISA

METHOD OF DATA

COLLECTION

Sample survey

RESPONDING UNIT Employers and Employees

FREQUENCY OF DATA

COLLECTION

Annually

(30 days, starting from July 1st)

REFERENCE PERIOD - Time point to collect information: Past year December 31st and June 30th of

reference year.

- Information on labor, level of education and professional etc… are collected at the

time point of past year December 31st , June 30th of reference year and December

31st of reference year, December 31st of the year after reference year.

- Information on results of production and business of enterprises are the official

data of the whole past year and 1st six months of reference year.

SAMPLE SIZE 16,000 enterprises and 10,000 employees

SAMPLING DESIGN Sampling frame: Enterprises with 3 different employee sizes (under 10

employee, from 10 to 300 employee and above 300 employee) were chosen

from 20 economic sectors of code level 1

Domain: 6 socio-economic regions

CONCEPTS AND

MEASUREMENTS

Based on Vietnam Statistic Law, Business Law and other international

standards.

DISSEMINATION - Annually Employment Trend Report

- Short-term Labor Market Forcast

Annually survey on the current status and labor demands of enterprises

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COLLECTING AGENCY General Statistics Office (GSO)

METHOD OF DATA

COLLECTION

Sample survey

RESPONDING UNIT People aged from 15 Yrs and above (males aged from 15 to 59 and females aged

from 15 to 54)

FREQUENCY OF DATA

COLLECTION

Quarterly

REFERENCE PERIOD Past week

SAMPLE SIZE 50,640 households, equivalent to 16,880 households per month

SAMPLING DESIGN Sampling frame: 15% enumeration areas of 2009 Population & Housing Census.

Domain: 6 socio-economic regions

Stratification: Two-stratified sample presented for the whole country,

urban/rural areas

CONCEPTS AND

MEASUREMENTS

Based on international standards, Resolution Concerning Statistics of the

Economically Active Population, Employment, Unemployment, and

Underemployment, adapted during the 13th International Conference of Labour

Statisticians (ICLS), 1982, Geneva, Switzerland.

DISSEMINATION - Quarterly Report on Labor Force Survey and released at the GSO Website:

gso.gov.vn

- Quarterly Labor Market Information Update and released at MOLISA Website:

molisa.gov.vn

LMI IN VIETNAM

Quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS)

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indicators2015 2016

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

1. GDP growth rate (%, year on year) 6,1 6,5 6,9 7,0 5,5

2. Export growth rate (%, year on year) 8,7 11,7 9,6 10,4 4,1

3. Total investment (% GDP) 30,4 31,1 31,9 32,6 32,2

4. Consumer price index (%, year on year) 0,74 0,86 0,74 0,60 1,25

5. Labor force, age 15+ (million people) 53,64 53,71 54,32 54,59 54,40

6. Labor force participation rate (%) 77,3 76,2 76,4 78,8 77,5

7. Share of trained workers with certificates/degrees (%) 21,24 20,06 20,22 20,20 20,76

8. Employment (million people) 52,43 52,53 53,17 53,50 53,29

9. Share of wage workers in total employment (%) 37,80 38,80 40,42 40,98 41,40

10. Share of agricultural, forestry and aquacultural

wokers in total employment (%)45,00 44,70 42,54 42,30 42,30

11. Unemployment (thousand people)1.159,

81.144,6 1.128,7

1.051,

6

1.072,

3

12. Unemployment rate (%) 2,43 2,42 2,35 2,18 2,25

Of which:

3,43 3,53 3,38 3,1512.1. Urband unemployment rate (%) 3,08

12.2. Youth unemployment rate age 15 – 24 (%) 6,60 6,68 7,30 7,21 6,63

LMI IN VIETNAM

Source: Labour Market Update, 1st quarter 2016_MOLISA & GSO

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Job Search (64 ESC Websites)

Job vacancies

Applicants

Database

Web Application

• Utilizing the open

search facility

• Browse job vacancies

BASIC SERVICES• Free registration• Run job matching process• View list of job vacancies

and applicants

New features:• Apply online to matched

company • Facility for the PES to

refer job applicant online• Invite job applicants for a

job interview• Job Fair/Bazaar facility

(posting, pre-registration, signup)

• View statistical data

• Data repository and

reporting tool

Vieclamvietnam.gov.vn

LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

LMI Network of Vietnam’s PES

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Real time analysis: General statistical data on labor demand and

number of applicants

LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

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Labour demands by enterprises’ types

LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

Real time analysis: Labour demands by enterprises’ types

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LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

Real time analysis: Top provinces/cities that have highest demand

of labor

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Enterprises’s

types

2015 2016

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

State28,0 27,3 22,0 19,5 16,5

Private134,9 118,6 88,9 100,0 117,1

Joint-stock83,1 79,9 60,4 60,9 66,5

Foreign invested 19,7 15,3 14,16 18,1 21,5

Non-confirmed3,9 2,0 1,3 1,9 2,8

Total269,7 243,3 186,9 200,5 224,4

Labor demand by enterprises’ types

Unit: Thousand persons

LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

Real time analysis: Trend of labor demand and supply analysized

based on LMI Network databases

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Job applicants 2015 2016

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

Total 300,3 263,9 211,7 224,1 236,3By genderMale 165,7 143,4 112,9 119,8 127,5

Female 134,6 120,5 98,8 104,3 108,8

By technical qualification No technical qualification 64,8 54,8 45,1 52,8 48,3

Vocational training 35,9 33,7 25,3 30,2 31,0Secondary vocational training 91,6 80,9 65,9 67,5 69,1

College 53,5 47,6 39,0 38,2 46,5

University and over 54,4 46,5 36,2 35,4 41,3

Desired salary Making a deal 168,1 180,5 110,7 115,8 126,3

< 2 million Vietnamese dong (VND) 0,7 0,2 0,0 0,2 0,2

2-4 million VND 20,6 14,0 14,9 14,7 12,9

4-6 million VND 66,0 34,2 45,9 48,2 61,8

6-10 million VND 28,2 13,3 16,2 12,0 19,8

10-15 million VND 10,8 16,0 16,4 28,1 11,7

15-30 million VND 4,4 5,2 4,7 3,8 2,2

> 30 million VND 1,6 0,5 3,1 1,4 1,3

LMI IN VIETNAM’S PES

Real time analysis: Trend of labor demand and supply analysized

based on LMI Network databases

Unit: Thousand persons

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ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

E-Portal vieclamvietnam.gov.vn run by Department of Employment,

MOLISA was officially launched in 2008 and became a LMI Network in

2013 when it was designed to link with 64 websites of 64 ESCs

nationwide.

Each ESC plays a role as an observatory and has responsibility to

gather LMI in its locality to develop its own database. That means that

our network is now made up of 64 different databases.

But using the same domain name vieclamvietnam.gov.vn (eg.

vlhanoi.vieclamvietnam.gov.vn etc…), therefore, it is easy to make the

integration and compilation of the LMI for the statistical and analytical

work.

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However, the database’s content only consists of basic information and

is not systematic as such international standards (ISCO and ISCED).

There are only 20 employment types that can be retrieved from the

databases and the applicants’ technical qualification (education) is

integrated and retrieved just at code level 1.

Some local PESs do not collect and compile the LMI as guidance and

take it as regular task, therefore, there are a lot of shortcomings and

information gaps still existing in the labor market in general and in the

databases in particular (eg. PES from Ho Chi Minh city and some

others).

Vietnam’s PES website serves as the government’s main LMI portal

but its capabilities have not yet met the increasingly need and

expectations of various groups of users.

ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

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WAY FORWARD

To standardize of codes and classifications (e.g. employment type and

education). The classification, concepts and definitions used should be

consistent with the national and international standards.

To merge 64 databases into one national database accessible to the

public.

The system need to be re-engineered so as to make the search for

jobs more effective through a computerized job matching and referral

system, and the provision of timely, relevant and readily accessible

LMI at least cost to users.

A centralised, interactive and updated information as evaluation

mechanism for in-depth analysis on the labour market to support not

only for formulation of policies and decision making but for the PES

itself.

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To form the basis for a thorough analysis and forecast of workforce

demands and supply for each industry sub-sector.

As main source of information to assist the education system and

worker training schemes to generate quality workforce with the right

training skills in meeting industry requirements

To enhance the cooperation among WAPES members to apply good

practices (eg. Korean PES and others) and advanced information

technology, such as ubiquitous smart phone access, smart-matching

(soft-matching), collection of job information on the internet (job robots)

and master data management system etc…

WAY FORWARD

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!