This report summarises information from the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS) that
has been conducted every year since 2010, concluding with 2014. The TCS has been a collaborative effort of
the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the General Statistics Office (GSO) and the
Development Economics Research Group (DERG) of the Department of Economics (DoE), University of
Copenhagen.
The data used in this report is based on four survey rounds, and, with the addition of future rounds of the
survey, aims to give researchers and policymakers a detailed understanding of the dynamics of technology,
productivity and profitability of Vietnam’s growing private sector. This report provides readers with an
introduction to the main features of the dataset and an overview of the main trends among the firm from
the manufacturing sector in Vietnam. As the report does not provide a complete description of the full
range of information collected in all survey rounds, both interested readers and researchers are
encouraged to review the survey questionnaire and explore the full survey dataset.