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

1. Second International Workshop on Economic CensusSeoul, Korea, 6 -9 July 2009 Data Collection and Data Processing Shanker Lal Shrestha Central Bureau of Statistics Nepal

2. Introduction 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.

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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

6. Census of 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.

7. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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.

8. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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

9. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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

10. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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.

11. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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

12. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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.

13. Census of Manufacturing Establishments 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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