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Nepal Fishery Survey 2015

Nepal, 2015 - 2016
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Central Bureau of Statistics
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Identification

Survey ID Number
NPL-CBS-NFS-2015-v01
Title
Nepal Fishery Survey 2015
Translated Title
Nepal Machha Sarwekshan 2072
Country
Name Country code
Nepal NPL
Study type
Agricultural Survey [ag/oth]
Abstract
The Nepal Fishery survey 2015 is an adoc survey conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal in 2015. This was conducted for the first time in Nepal.

The survey was designed with the followring objectives :


1. To identify the distrirctiwse number of poultry firms, area of reservoirs, fish production and thier cost estimation.
2. Estimate the contribution made by the fishing business to the economy and
3. Providing necessary fishery statistics for planning and policy making.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Fish Pond

Version

Version Description
v1: Final Data for internal use only.
Version Date
2017-06-30

Scope

Notes
This report includes the information on number, area, water surface area and average depth of pond, median age, sex and fishery training status of fish farmer, Education status of fish farmer, Major selling place of fish, Type of employment, wages and salaries, Species of fingerlings (Bhura) and its cost, Current expenditure of fish farming, Number of pond, water surface Area, fish production, value of production and yield rate, Value of fixed assets formation during the reference period, Input and Output of integrated fish farming, Percentage of farmer facing problem, Percentage of farmer reporting loan, Average interest rate, Percentage of farmer need loan/additional loan and purpose of loan and Principal indicator of fish farming.
Topics
Topic Vocabulary
Agriculture & Rural Development World Bank
Keywords
Keyword
Fishery survey
Fish kind
Reservoire

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National, Province, District
Universe
Total number of fishery ponds of Nepal

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Central Bureau of Statistics Natioanl Planning Commision, Government of Nepal
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Government of Nepal GoN Overall

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Most important initiation of the survey was preparing a survey frame. The total 24,559 fish ponds were collected 2014/15. The enumerators of the SOs were directly involved for the listing purpose using papered listing form. Theoretically, the listing of the farms was based on primary source of data collection. The listing forms collected from districts were edited and coded and finally, the survey frame was prepared. After preparing the survey frame, the list was prepared on the basis of area of fish ponds in descending order. The samples were drawn according to systematic sampling.
Response Rate
There was no non-response case as the additional samples were drawn to address the non response as well as missing case.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2015-07-17 2016-07-15
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Supervision
Interviewing was conducted by each interviewer. One supervisor was assigned for two interviwers.The main role of interviwer was to conduct interview based on questionnairte whereas the role of supervisor was to monitor the progress of the field work as well as quality of the data. He was also responsible for the delivery of the progress report to the Statistics Office. Likewise, the supervision of the field work was also conducted by the chief of the Statistics Office. He was also responsible for reporting the progress of the field work to the head office. Likewise, the officials from the CBS had also supervised the field work. There was also a mannual for the uniformity of the field work.
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Central Bureau of Statistics CBS National Planning Commision

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The questionnaire for the Fishery survey were mostly structured questionnaires in Nepali. A questionnaires was administered for each selected ponds which collected various information on demographic information regarding firm, registration status, operation year, ownership, legal status, employment status of the firm, production and sale of fish, current and capital expenditure, production and sale fish, current and capital expenditure, information on loan, infrastructure of the pond.

Data Processing

Data Editing
A centralised data preocessing system was used for the survey. As in the past, a need to maintain a careful control over data entry and verification of all coding was difficult to resolve at the field level. So the centralised system was adopted. For preliminary work, census and survey processing system (CSpro) was used for data entry and management. Most of the furthetr data analysis and tabulation was done using SPSS pacakage.
Other Processing
After transferring all files to SPSS, certain variables were recoded for use as background characteristics in the tabulation of the data, including grouping age, geographic areas as needed for analysis. In the process, some random imputation (within calculated constraints) was performed .

Data Appraisal

Data Appraisal
The data reflecting the questionnaire from the survey was cross-checked with the data from various agencies like Ministry of Livestocks of Nepal. Likewise, the data from the survey were also varified from the post field work.

Access policy

Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Director General Central Bureau of Statistics dg@cbs.gov.np cbs.gov.np
Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Director of Publication, Dissemination and Library Section Central Bureau of Statistics archive@cbs.gov.np www.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 anonymized and is available for internal use only, i.e. not access to public use.
Citation requirements
Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal Fishery Survey 2015. Data and information obtained from National Data Archive (NADA): http://cbs.gov.np/nada/index.php/catalog on [date].

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-NPL-CBS-NFS-2015-v01
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Central Bureau of Statistics CBS National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal Documentation of the Study
Date of Metadata Production
2017-09-12
DDI Document version
verson 01 (September 2017): Original documentation of the study.