Ministry of Commerce event to highlight importance of industrial survey

Energy Monday 22/January/2018 21:30 PM
By: Times News Service
Ministry of Commerce event to highlight importance of industrial survey

Muscat: A seminar on the importance of industrial survey of industrial establishments will be organised by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) at the Sheraton Hotel on Tuesday.
The event will be held under the patronage of Eng. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Theeb, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
It will be attended by 100 participants from government agencies, the private sector and students of universities and colleges.
Eng. Saleh bin Mahmoud Al Zadjali, Director of Industrial Information Department at the Directorate General of Industry in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said that the seminar aims at highlighting the importance of industrial information and inviting industrialists to provide accurate information to the industrial data collector during the industrial survey.
He added that the seminar will discuss a number of working papers. The first paper will discuss industrial performance and competitiveness.
The second paper reviews the international recommendations of industrial statistics.
The third paper presents the concepts of national accounts and data sources. The fourth paper is entitled Industrial Survey in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The last paper will be on how to use technology in data collection.
It is worth mentioning that MoCI annually carries out industrial survey in various governorates of the Sultanate to list the industrial establishments operating in the Sultanate in order to provide an integrated database on the industrial sector.