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National Population Census 2001

Nepal, 2001
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NPL_2001_PHC_v01_M
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data appraisal
  • Distributor information
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    NPL_2001_PHC_v01_M
    Title

    National Population Census 2001
    Subtitle

    Tenth Census
    Translated Title

    Rastriya Janagana 2058, Nepal
    Country
    Name Country code
    Nepal NPL
    Study type

    Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]
    Series Information

    This is the tenth Population Census of Nepal. The first census was conducted in 1911.The earlier censuses of Nepal were not that precise as compared to the modern censuses. Four censuses taken before the 1952/54 census are known as “head counts”. The 1952/54 census was taken in two parts of the country in two different years. Then a synchronized census was taken in 1961. After 1961, a census has been taken in every ten years.
    Abstract

    The objectives of the 2001 Population Census were:

    a. to develop a set of benchmark data for different purposes,
    b. to provide data for small administrative areas of the country on population, housing and household facilities,
    c. to provide reliable frames for different types of sample surveys,
    d. to provide sex disaggregated data of the population and other variables related to households, demographic, social and economic conditions of the country, and
    e. to provide detailed information on women, children, the aged and the disabled.
    Kind of Data

    Census/enumeration data [cen]
    Unit of Analysis

    Individual and household

    Scope

    Notes

    HOUSEHOLD: Household characteristicds, household listing, operated land area for agriculture, Number of livestock/poultry, female member ownership on assets, source of drinking water, fuel used for cooking, source of light, toilet facility, household facilities, information on the deceased persons.

    INDIVIDUAL: Individual characteristics, caste/ethnicity, religion and mother tongue, migration, education, marital status, fertility, mortality, economic activity, child labour
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    unemployment [3.5] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    basic skills education [6.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
    housing [10.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National coverage
    Geographic Unit

    Ward level
    Universe

    The survey covered all household members (usual residents) in the household.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Central Bureau of Statistics National Planning Commission
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Nepal Government Funding for Survey management, data collection
    United Nations Population Fund Funding for Printing of census questionnaire, procurement of equipments, study tour, sampling and data processing consultant
    European Union Funding for Census base map and census enumeration maps
    United Nations Fund for Women and children Funding for Media Strategy and Gender Sensitisation
    United Nations Children's Fund Funding for Media Strategy and Campaigning
    United Nations Development Programme Funding for gender training

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    The 2001 census collected data based on short form for the complete enumeration of the benchmark information and the long form for the sample enumeration of other socio-economic and demographic information. The long form was administered for population dwellings in about 20 percent of the total housing units. Based on these, estimates were generated at the district level with reliable degree of precision.

    The sampling scheme of the 2001 Population Census for the long form is summarized below.

    1. The sampling covered the private households only. For the institutional population, Schedule-1 only was administered.

    2. For the sampling, 75 administrative districts formed the main strata and VDC's and municipalities within the district formed the domains.

    3. There were around 36,000 wards in the country at the time of the census. For the purpose of the census enumeration some of the large wards were further divided into sub-wards. These wards and sub-wards formed the EA's for sampling. The total number of EAs thus formed were around 40,000.

    4. Sampling was carried out in each EA; housing unit being the sampling unit.

    5. The list of housing units and households served as the sampling frame for the EA. The housing units were selected by systematic sampling method. The sampling interval taken was 8.

    6. The list of selected housing units was made available to the enumerator for the enumeration. All households and persons found in the selected units were enumerated.

    7. The ratio method was used in making estimates for the sample.

    8. Tabulation groups were created separately for tabulation of persons and those for households. The main control variables for the majority of tabulations for persons were two variables: age sex. Tabulation groups for household tabulations were formed in a different manner: taking households as a tabulation group in the domain.

    9. To implement the ratio estimation, first weights were calculated. The weights for sample data were computed by dividing the 100 percent counts for the same tabulation groups in the domain by sample counts for the same tabulation groups in the domain. To avoid inconsistency due to rounding, the figures were converted to whole numbers.

    This detailed sampling procedure is provided in the document 'Sample Design for the 2001 Census of Housing and Population, Nepal'.
    Response Rate

    At the time of census there were 3,914 VDC's and 58 municipalities. VDC's contained a total of 35,226 wards while urban areas contained 806 wards. Thus total numbers of wards in the country were 36,032. Out of these wards, 957 wards (including 2 urban wards) were affected due to the political disturbances in the country. Works in 83 VDC's of 12 districts were completely affected. 747 wards were completely affected. 2 wards of 2 municipalities and some wards of 37 VDC's were partially affected. In Salyan and Kalikot even listing was disturbed in some areas. In these districts population was estimated on the basis of listing sheet and following other estimation procedures.

    For form 2, there is no available data for response rate.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Two types of schedules were prepared. Form 1 for complete enumeration and Form 2 for sample enumeration. Both schedules contained questions on household as well as individuals.

    Content of the Census Questionnaire:

    Short Form : Schedule 1 / FORM 1: (COMPLETE Enumeration)

    Household Information (Question relating to Household)

    1. Type of housing unit occupied by the household
    2. Tenure of housing unit
    3. Whether any land operated for agriculture
    4. Area of agricultural land operated
    5. Whether any livestock/ poultry raised
    6. Number of livestock/ poultry on the holding
    7. Whether any female member owned any house/land
      • Area of land owned
    8. Whether any female member owned any livestock
      • Number of livestock (big and small head)

    Individual Information (Question relating to Individuals)

    1. Serial number of household member
    2. Full name of the household member
    3. Male/Female
    4. Age
    5. Caste/Ethnicity
    6. Relationship of the household head
    7. Religion
    8. Language spoken
      • Mother tongue
      • Second language
    9. Citizenship
    10. Disability

    Long Form : Schedule 2 / FORM 2: (SAMPLE Enumeration)

    Household Information (Question relating to Household)

    1. Main source of drinking water
    2. Main fuel used for cooking
    3. Main source of light
    4. Toilet facility
    5. Household conveniences
    6. Whether any death in the household
    7. Information on the deceased person(s)
      • Sex, age, date, and cause

    Individual Information (Question relating to Individuals)

    1. Serial number of household member
    2. Full name and sex of the household member
    3. Age
    4. Place of birth
    5. Duration of stay at the present place
    6. Reason for staying in this district
    7. Residence five years ago
    8. Whether able to read and write
    9. Level of education
    10. Whether currently attending any school
    11. Marital status
    12. Age at first marriage
    13. No. of children ever born
    14. Any live births during last 12 months
    15. Work usually done during the last 12 months
    16. No. of months worked during the last 12 months
    17. Occupation (type of usual work)
    18. Industry (place of usual work)
    19. Employment Status
    20. Reasons for usually not working
    21. Living arrangements of children below 16 years

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2001-06-10 2001-06-26
    Time periods
    Start date End date
    2001-06-22 2001-06-22
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Central Bureau of Statistics National Planning Commission
    Supervision

    Each district was divided into one to three Area Census Offices depending upon the population of the district. All the District Census Offices were eventually supervised and controlled by the Population Census Section of the Bureau at Kathmandu.

    A total of 19,370 enumerators were recruited for a period of one month. These enumerators were mainly primary school teachers and the remaining were fresh recruits. In a similar manner 4,926 supervisors recruited in the census came from the high school teachers, fresh recruits and the university students from Population, Statistics and other faculties. Thus, there were almost 4 enumerators per supervisor in the Census.
    Data Collection Notes

    Various levels of training were organized for different levels of staffs in the census at different points of time. These included the training of the master trainers, district census officers, area supervisors, field supervisors and the enumerators. To start with, a group of master trainers were trained in the Bureau. The master trainers together with the Mainstreaming Gender Equity Programme (MGEP, an UN-agency) staffs, and the Sahavbagi, a leading NGO, also participated and facilitated the central and district level training of the census field staffs. These training were mainly focused for maintaining uniformity on the census procedures, terms and definitions used in the census questionnaires and developed understanding among all the trainees.

    Questionnaire contents and the pre-testing of census enumeration procedure were conducted in four districts, Bajura from mountain, Mahottari from terai and Dhankuta as well as Kathmandu from the hilly region.

    Interviews averaged 35 minutes for the household questionnaire. Interviews were conducted primarily in Nepali.

    Data processing

    Data Editing

    Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:

    a) Office editing and coding
    b) During data entry
    c) Structure checking and completeness
    d) Secondary editing
    e) Structural checking of SPSS data files

    Data appraisal

    Estimates of Sampling Error

    Estimates from a sample survey are affected by two types of errors:

    1. non-sampling errors and
    2. sampling errors.

    The sampling error is not available.

    Non-sampling errors are the results of mistakes made in the implementation of data collection and data processing. Numerous efforts were made during implementation of the population census 2001 to minimize this type of error, however, non-sampling errors are impossible to avoid and difficult to evaluate statistically.

    This method is discussed in detail in the document 'Sample Design for the 2001 Census of Housing and Population, Nepal'.
    Data Appraisal

    The post enumeration survey was conducted to assess the completeness in the census enumeration and also the quality of the answers given to the questions asked in the
    population census. An independent verification of the census enumeration through a PES on a sample basis can provide an estimate of the extent of under enumeration or over enumeration that occurred at the census.

    The PES 2001 was planned as an independent intensive re-interviews of all households in the sampled enumeration areas. The sample was restricted to a manageable size as mentioned elsewhere. A single stage stratified sampling design was adopted for the household enumeration sampling 7900 households and a two stage stratified design
    was used for the individual questionnaire. The Dual System Estimation metod was adopted for the survey design.

    The detailed information can be found in PES Report under Census Report.

    Distributor information

    Distributor
    Organization name
    Central Bureau of Statistics Thapathali Kathmandu Nepal Tel 977-1- 241803 Fax 977-1-227720 Email cbscls@wlink.com.np Web http://www.cbs.gov.np

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Director General Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal http://cbs.gov.np/?page_id=17 uttammalla@cbs.gov.np
    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes Confidentiality of the respondents is guaranteed by Article 8 of Statistics Act 1958. Restriction on publication of information and details Any information or details relating to any person, family, firm or company, which have been supplied, obtained or prepared pursuant to Section 3 or Section 4 or Section 5 or Section 6 or Section 7 or any part of such information or details, shall not be disclosed or published directly except to the Director General or to any other officer of the Bureau without the written permission of the person or of his or her authorized representative supplying such information or details. For the purpose of institution of any suit under this Act, nothing mentioned in Sub-section (1) shall be deemed to bar the production of such information before any court.
    Access conditions

    The dataset has been anonymized and is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is accessible to all users for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:

    1. The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
    2. The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.
    3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to the CBS.
    4. No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by the CBS or among data from the CBS and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations.
    5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the CBS will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.
    6. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the CBS.
    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal. National Population Census 2001. Ref. NPL_2001_PHC_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://cbs.gov.np/nada/index.php/catalog on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal bears no responsibility for any outcomes or for interpretations or inferences arising from the use of the dataset.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    National Data Archive, Publication, Distribution and Library Section Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal archive@cbs.gov.np http://cbs.gov.np/?page_id=17

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_NPL_2001_PHC_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Suresh Prasad Kayastha Central Bureau of Statistics Documenter
    Tirtha Raj Baral Central Bureau of Statistics Documenter
    Accelerated Data Program International Household Survey Network Editing for IHSN Survey Catalog
    Date of Metadata Production

    2010-11-22

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0 - Central Bureau of Statistics - Original documentation of the study.
    Version 2.0 - Edited version by ADP based on Version 1.0 of CBS downloaded from http://cbs.gov.np/nada/index.php/catalog on 17 April 2013.
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