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The present volume pertaining to the final results of the Population Census 2001 on Socio-economic aspects at the National, Regional and District level is valuable for planning. I hope these information could be very useful for planning and implementation of the 10th development plan of the country.

The Central Bureau of Statistics deserves special appreciation for completing the huge census undertaking in such a difficult situation. The report produced by the CBS will be useful for planners, users and researchers.

On this occasion I would like to thank all the staff of the Bureau and all others who participated equally in this endeavor. In particular, I would like to thank the UN agencies for their support.

Any valuable comments from the users of the report will help improve the task of carrying out such a census in the future.

Thank you.

This report contains the total household, population by sex for all the Village Development Committees of all the 75 districts of the country. One of the additional features of this report is that this report contains the district planning maps prepared for all the districts showing the location and boundaries of each VDC. In addition to the district maps a national map for the country is also presented. In this manner as a special feature of this issue 76 separate maps are placed in order of the district geo code of the country.

I hope this published report on the Population Census 2001 at the VDC/Municipality level will be very useful & fill the existing data gap. In order to make improvement of such report in the future I always welcome the valuable comments & suggestions from the users. On this occasion, I like to thank the then Director General Mr. Keshav Raj Sharma for his valuable contributions in the census. I very much like to thank the census core staff members Deputy Directors Mr. Badri Prasad Niraula, Mr. Krishna Prasad Shrestha, Mr. Tunga Bastola, Mr. Ravi Prasad Kayastha and Statistical Officers Mr. Bharat Raj Sharma, Mr. Ritu Pantha, & Mr. Sharad Raj Nepal and Mr. Kedar Basnyat for their dedicated work in the census. My thanks also goes to the census administration, management, accounts and procurement jobs done by Section Officer Mr. Laxmi Tripathi, Account Officer Mr. Damodar Fuyal and support staffs Mr. Dhruba Regmi, Mr. Harihar Dhakal, Mr. Laxmi Khakurel, Mr. Prakash Pokharel and cartographic work done by Mr. Damodar Dahal.

During the preparation phase of the census I would also like to thank the Deputy Director Mr. Dinesh Prasad Dahal, Statistical Officers Mr. Surya Kumar Pandit and Mr. Hari Poudel and other members of the core team who worked hard in preparing the Nepal Standard Occupation and Industry Classification under the guidance of the then Deputy Director General Mrs. Savitri Singh.

The Data Processing Group of Statistical Officers Mr. Dhruba Raj Ghimire, Mr. Shiva Nandan Shah, Mr. Manoj Upreti, Mr. Shailendra Ghimire and Computer Assistants Mr. Dol Narayan Shrestha & Mr. Suresh Prasad Kayastha under the guidance of Data Processing Consultant of UNFPA Mr. H.N. Regmi deserves special thanks.

The UN Inter Agencies –UNFPA, UNIFEM, UNICEF and UNDP were very supportive in conducting this census. For supporting the printing of the report I specially like to thank UNFPA.

At this Juncture the Central Bureau of Statistics especially like to thank all the Enumerators, Supervisors, Area Supervisors, Census Officers, the Master Trainers, the Census Core Staffs, Senior Officials of the Bureau and all other Staffs of the Central and Branch Statistics Office involved in the Census Operations whose hard dedication made this census a success.

Above and all I am grateful to the National Statistical Council, Census Technical Committee, Media Core Group, Census Mapping Project of the Department of Survey, the National Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, the Cabinet Ministry, Home Ministry and all other Ministries and Departments of HMG for their valuable support on technical, administrative, financial as well as on various other aspects of the census.

Again University students from Population, Statistics and other Faculties participated as supervisors, we very much like to thank these institutions and the students for their good work. Similarly various other governmental, semi-governmental and non-governmental organizations are acknowledged for their interest and contribution to the census.

The various print and audio/visual media were very helpful in census publicity. For the second time the Postal Service Department issued the commemorative stamp on Census of Nepal. The Department of Information also facilitated the census publicity by means of the calendar of 2058. They all deserve our special thanks.

The support of the UNFPA in the field of technical assistance, vehicles, computers and other non-expendables and enumerators kits; UNDP in the field of training of census field staffs and advocacy through the Mainstreaming Gender Equity Program (MGEP); UNIFEM in census publicity and advocacy and UNICEF in the field of census publicity and advocacy tremendously contributed for the census. In this manner, the UN Inter-Agencies effort in this census is a milestone.

In a series of publications the present publication is a take off, this will be followed by various census reports in different print and electronic formats and analytical reports of the 2001 census.

On this occasion, I would like to request all individuals’ users and researchers for making extensive use of the census data and pass on valuable comments for future improvements.

Moreover, I would like to thank the chief of the Population Census Section Mr. Radha Krishna G.C. for completing the job in the stipulated time.

Finally, I like to thank all those who participated and joined hand in hand in this national endeavor to make the Population Census 2001 a special event and made this census a success. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude & appreciation to all of them.