| Workshop on Population Data Analysis, Storage and
Dissemination Technologies |
| Bangkok, 27-30 March 2001 |
STAT/WDT/Nepal
20 March 2001
ENGLISH ONLY
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Workshop on Population Data Analysis, Storage and
Dissemination Technologies
27-30 March 2001
Bangkok |
| Nepal's upcoming Population
Census 20011/
|
Mr. Radha Krishna GC [1]
Mr. Nebin Lal Shrestha [2]
|
| Contents |
- Introduction
to Nepal
- Census
History in Nepal
- Data
Collection Technology
- Question
Content in the Questionnaire
- Data
Processing:
5.1
Hardware/Software/Manpower
5.2
Data Entry/Cleaning
5.3
Data Processing/Storage
5.4
Data Dissemination
Link to questionnaires:
National Population Census 2001 Schedule 1 &
2 |
1/
This paper has been reproduced as submitted.
It has been issued without formal editing.
[1]
Deputy Director/Section Chief, Population
Section, CBS, Nepal
[2]Statistical
Officer, CBS, Nepal
|
| 1.
Introduction to Nepal: |
| Nepal is a landlocked country surrounded by India in the
east, south, west and China in the north. Geographically
the country is divided into three regions: Mountain,
Hill and Terai. There are 5 development regions
and 75 administrative districts. Districts are
further sub-divided into smaller units, called
Village Development Committee (VDC) and Municipality
(Town). Currently, there are 3914 VDCs and 58
Municipalities in the country. Kathmandu is the
capital city. The estimated population of the
country in the year 2000 was around 23 million. |
 |
| 2.
Census History in Nepal: |
| In Nepal, population census has been conducted by the
Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in every 10
years since 1911. In this regard, the upcoming
population census 2001 is 10th in its
series. The census will be conducted for 12 days
from 10 to 21 June 2001, and final correction
for birth and death during the census period will
be done in 22 June 2001. So, the reference day
of the census will be taken as the dawn of the
22 June 2001. |
| 3.
Data Collection Technology: |
| As in all other previous censuses, the modified "De Jure"
method of counting population will be adopted
in 2001 census i.e. individuals will be counted
on the basis of their usual place of residence. |
| For data collection, 76 district census offices (2 in
Kathmandu the capital district) will be established
in 75 districts of the country. The census officer
will be incharge of each district census offices.
Each district will be further divided upto 4 sub-districts
on the basis of population distribution for the
purpose of recruitment of field staffs, their
training and field enumeration. Around 20,000
enumerators, 5,000 field supervisors, 300 sub-district
supervisors and 76 district census officers will
be involved for field work all over the country.
The overall responsibility of the census operation
in a district will be taken by the district census
officer with the assistance of his/her subordinate
staffs. |
| The field supervisors will gather information on household
listing schedule and accordingly, the enumerators
will visit and administer questionnaire in every
household within his/her work area. As in previous
censuses, maps have been prepared upto the VDCs
and municipalities with ward boundary delineation.
In municipalities, ward-level maps have also been
prepared with sub-wards as blocks. These maps
will be used to identify supervisors' jurisdiction
and assign the enumerators area. |
| 4.
Question Content in the Questionnaire: |
| There are two schedules in the questionnaire. Schedule
1 is for complete count and schedule 2 is for
sample count designed to cover one fifth of the
total population. Both of the schedules contain
household questions and individual questions.
This is the first time in Nepal that sampling
scheme is being used in the population census. |
| Basic questions of the census are included in schedule
1. While the question on Literacy, Marital Status,
Demographic/Economic Characteristics are included
in schedule 2 (sample count). For detail of the
questionnaire please see Appendix I. |
| 5.
Data Processing: |
| 5.1
Hardware/Software/Manpower |
| Data entry will be done under local area network environment.
Windows NT will be used for networking purpose.
Pentium IV computers with 1 GHz clock speed, dual
processor and 40 GB hard disk drive will be used
as file server. In the workstation, Pentium III
computers will be used as data entry terminals. |
| ORACLE, Developer 2000 and FoxPro will be used as an application
program. POPMAP developed by UNFPA would also
be used for the analysis of data. |
| CBS will use one local consultant
and six trained staff of its own for the processing
of census data. |
| 5.2
Data Entry/Cleaning |
| Before beginning data entry, editing, coding will be done
under the supervision and coordination of the
questionnaire administrators. Training will be
given to data entry operators so that they are
comfortable with the data entry program and aware
of their responsibilities. |
| Data entry of all the census schedules will be done using
Pentium III computer terminals (160 terminals
in 2 shifts) under the local area network environment.
These data entry terminals will be controlled
by 4 file servers. Data entry will be done in
two phases: |
First: Full count i.e. Schedule 1
Second: Sample count i.e. Schedule 2 |
| Entered records will be edited from computer program.
Range checks, Consistency checks and Integrity
checks are done in this stage. |
| Double entry system will also be adopted for at least
5% of total records to minimize the data entry
error. |
| As mentioned, there are two schedules in the census questionnaire:
short form for full count and long form for sample
count. The estimated data entry volume for each
schedule will be as follow: |
| |
Full count (Schedule 1) |
Sample count (Schedule 2) |
|
Household |
Individual |
Household |
Individual |
| # of records |
4,000,000 |
24,000,000 |
800,000 |
4,800,000 |
| Character per record |
78 |
31 |
40 |
90 |
| Estimated characters |
312,000,000 |
744,000,000 |
32,000,000 |
432,000,000 |
|
| 5.3
Data Processing/Storage |
| Districts, where sampling techniques are applied, are
estimated. Both actual and estimated data for
necessary level are stored. |
| Census tables will be generated and stored by using ORACLE
software. These generated table files will be
the main data files for census data distribution. |
| Data will be stored in three levels: |
- District Level
- Regional Level: Regional
level data will be created after merging district
level data files of that region
- National Level: National
level data will be created after merging data
files of all regions
|
| Data files for both household and individual will be |
- Raw data file
- Temporary files
- Corrected data files
- Tabulated files.
|
| 5.4
Data Dissemination |
| Census data will be disseminated to all potential users.
Following methods will be used for data dissemination: |
- Local Area Network:
for within department
- Wide Area Network:
for National Planning Commission, Ministry
of Population & Environment and potential
users via dial up modem
- Web Site: for all users
- CD for all users
- Hard copy printed output:
for all users
- Dissemination seminars
will be conducted widely.
|
|
Link
to questionnaires: National Population Census
2001 Schedule 1 & 2
|
