Annual Household Survey 2013-2014

Nepal, 2013 - 2014

Central Bureau of Statistics

Identification

Survey ID Number

NPL_2013_AHS_v01_M

Title

Annual Household Survey 2013-2014

Translated Title

Barshik Gharpariwar Sarbekshen 2071

Country

Name	Country code
Nepal	NPL

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Series Information

It is the second Annual Household Survey (AHS) 2013/14. AHS is a nation-wide household survey which was started in 2012/13 with the vision of gathering information mainly on household consumption and current labour force annually. The field work of this survey was conducted from December 2013 to June 2014.

Abstract

Annual Household Survey is a recent endeavor of the CBS conducted with a purpose of providing frequent socio-economic information on household consumption, employment and other socioeconomic aspects of Nepalese households. The survey aims to provide estimates for Nepal, urban and rural area and also by consumption quintiles and deciles. Altogether 3,000 households (1500 from urban and 1500 from rural) were selected from 200 wards/sub wards.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

The Annual Household survey have the following unit of analysis: income, expenditure, consumption,employment, unemployment,and educational status of individual and households.

Version

Version Date

2015-08-15

Scope

Notes

The scope of survey includes the topics such as consumption expenditure, employment and unemployment, time use in economic, non-economic and extended economic activities, housing and household facilities, demography, literacy and educational attainment.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary
Labor Markets	World Bank
Poverty	World Bank

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National, Urban and Rural sectors.

Universe

The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all individual aged 5 years and above.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Central Bureau of Statistics	National Planning Commission Secretariat, Government of Nepal

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Abbreviation
Government of Nepal	GoN
United Nation Development Programme	UNDP

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The survey has followed two stage sampling design with stratifications of the households into urban and rural area. A complete list of wards with number of households provided by National Population Census 2011 was used as a sampling frame for the survey. Altogether, there were 806 wards in urban area and 35,214 wards in rural area of Nepal. In order to avoid extremity of the size of wards, some big wards were segregated into blocks or enumeration areas (EAs). The sampling frame contained 4,861 EAs in urban and 36,181 EAs in rural areas making a total of 41042 EAs in Nepal.

The survey aimed to provide estimates for Nepal, urban and rural area, and accordingly, the population was stratified into urban and rural area. Wards or sub wards (EAs) were the primary sampling units (PSUs). The number of PSUs to be selected were 100 from rural and 100 from urban area making a total of 200 PSUs. The sample size was determined on the basis of the sampling variance of previous surveys. PSUs were selected on the basis of probability proportional to the size (PPS), the measure of the size being the number of households in each ward. Selected PSUs were spread over 65 districts.

Households were the ultimate sampling units (USUs) selected with equal probability on the basis of systematic random sampling technique. Fifteen (15) households were selected from each PSUs.Altogether 3000 households (1500 from urban and 1500 from rural) were selected for the interview. In a nutshell, procedures followed to select sample households were:
- selection of PSUs based on PPS from the frame,
- listing of households in the selected PSU, and
- selection of SSUs from the updated list of household in the selected PSU.

Weighting

This survey adopted two stage sampling, PPS at first stage and systemetic sampling in second. One domain had one sampling weight. For estimation propose one household in urban area represents 725.66 households and 1 rural household equals to 3038.28 households. Individual weights were calculated by multiplying household weight by corresponding sizer of households.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2013-12-01	2014-07-01

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Supervision

The day to day field work was supervised by the team leader. In addition, there was a provision of supervision from the CBS (central level) as well as from Statistics Offices. For this purpose a 5-days workshop com training programme was executed for Statistics Office heads at Chitwan. Central level supervisory visits by the core team members of the Household Survey Section carried out immediately after the start of the field work. For this propose two kinds of field monitoring had been implemented. At times, central observations were done by the Director General and Deputy Director General of the Bureau.

Data Collectors

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Statistical Office	SO	Central Bureau of Statistics

Questionnaires

The questionnaire mainly contain household information and Individual information. Parts 2, 3 and 4 cover housing, food and non-food consumption expenditure while part 1 and 5 cover individual information. Part 1 contains questions on demographic characteristics, migration, literacy/education, and Part 5 on economic activities.

Data Processing

Data Editing

For the data entry,editing, and verification at the field, a simple and clear data entry programme was developed in CSPro software, and each team was given a personal computer having the entry program so that every team could be able to enter the interviewed household data in the respective field area. To maintain uniformity in consistency check and skip pattern check, a 3-day review meeting was organized in Kavre comprising all the team leaders who were responsible for data entry and data editing at the PSU level. During the review meeting, necessary instructions were issued to rectify the errors and inconsistencies found in the field work especially in the computer data entry programme.

At the center, completeness and structural checking was done by using STATA software after gathering all electronic files of the raw data. During this checking, mannual review of questioniare was reviewed mannually and outliers were omitted if necessary.

Access policy

Access authority

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Director General	Governmaent of Nepal	dg@cbs.gov.np	cbs.gov.np

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Director of Publication, Dissemination and Library Section	CBS	archive@cbs.gov.np	cbs.gov.np

Confidentiality

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.

Access conditions

The dataset has been available for internal use only.

Citation requirements

Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal. Annual Household Survey 2013/14-vo1. Information is available from National Data Archive (NADA): http://cbs.gov.np/nada/index.php/catalog on [date].

Location of Data Collection

Central Bureau of Statistics

Archive where study is originally stored

Central Bureau of Statistics
http://www.cbs.gov.np/nada/index.php/catalog/52
Cost: None

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, or use of the information provided on the study.