second international workshop on economic census seoul, korea, 6 -9 july 2009 shanker lal shrestha...

Second International Workshop on Economic CensusSeoul, Korea, 6 -9 July 2009

Shanker Lal ShresthaCentral Bureau of Statistics

Nepal

Data Collection and Data Processing

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) is the major statistical agency

under the National Planning Commission of Government of Nepal.

The Statistical Act 1958 has authorized CBS to conduct economic

census and surveys, including census of manufacturing

establishment in Nepal.

The economic census is a major source of data relating to economy

of the country.

It covering the entire economy provides data at disaggregated levels

and the data from economic census are comparable and can be

used to measure the inter-linkages among various sectors.

Introduction

In Nepal, the economic census covering all sectors of economy is not

in practice.

However, the CBS has conducted

Census of Manufacturing Establishment – every five years

Survey of small manufacturing establishment - every ten years.

Apart from that, the survey of economic activities like construction,

hotel, restaurants, private schools, consulting firms, transport

companies etc. is conducted in an ad hoc basis.

Introduction

Census of Manufacturing Establishments

In CBS, the Establishment Census and Survey Section (ECSS), under

the Economic Statistics Division, is responsible for all management of

conducting the census, including planning, questionnaire design, data

collection, data processing, analysis, report writing and dissemination

of the census.

CBS has been conducting the census of manufacturing establishments

since the year 1964/65.

Up to now CBS has conducted nine CME ( 1964/65, 1972/73,

1976/77, 1981/82, 1986/87, 1991/92, 1996/97, 2001/02 and 2006/07)


Objectives

The overall objective of the CME is

–To collect process and disseminate statistics of operational

manufacturing establishments engaging ten or more persons in

the reference period.

The specific objectives of the CME are

–To collect statistics on the structure of the existing manufacturing

establishments; –To produce information on output and input of manufacturing

establishments by Central Product Classification (CPC); –To produce statistics at national and district levels; –To collect and produce statistics on employment in the

manufacturing establishments


The CME covers all manufacturing establishments located within

the geographic boundary of Nepal engaging 10 or more persons.

The establishments have been classified according to NSIC, in

compatible with ISIC.

The census enumeration work is carried out during the month of

October – May.

The reference period of the census is one fiscal year (July 15-

July14) before the enumeration period.


The field work is carried out with the help of the staff of the

Branch Statistics Offices located in 33 districts of the

country.

All persons involved in data collection and processing are

trained by staffs at the central offices.

The field staffs directly interview or assist the respondents

in accomplishing the questionnaires.


The information collected from the census are

• Identification of Manufacturing Establishment

• Legal Status

• Ownership

• Major production

• Number of employees

• Wages, Salaries

• Other benefits

• Sales and Cost of Fuels


• Income and Expenditure from Industrial Service

• Cost of Raw material

• Sale of Production

• Stock

• Cost of Non-Industrial Service

• Indirect Tax

• Receipt of Non-Industrial Service

• Fixed Assets

• Production Capacity Utilization


The filled up questionnaires are collected at the Branch

Statistics Offices where completeness, consistency and

reasonableness of the data are checked.

After manual editing, the questionnaires are sent to the

Central Office for coding and data entry.

Completed questionnaires received from BSO are

thoroughly check before data entry and , also range and

consistency edits are done during data entry.


The data entry is done using the software 'CS Pro' and

tabulation is carried out by using statistical package

'STATA'.

At every steps of the census (from planning through data

publication), a close supervision of the work is carried out

by the CBS staffs in order to maintain the quality of the

data.

Sampling is used for small manufacturing establishment

survey covering those establishment having less than ten

persons


The census result is disseminated through printed and

electronic copies.

A seminar is also organized to disseminate the census

findings.

A monograph covering a detailed analysis of the census

data is going to publish for the census of manufacturing

establishment 2006/07 for the first time in Nepal.


In sum,

However, Economic Census is essential for economic data

generation, it is not in practice in Nepal

CME, Survey of Small Manufacturing Establishment, and other

ad hoc survey are major sources of economic statistics in Nepal

Direct interviews by staffs of BSO is the method of data

collection.

Manual editing are done at BSO, and data processing, analysis

and data dissemination are done at CBS

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