{"doc_desc":{"title":"Distributive Trade Survey 2008","idno":"DDI-NPL-CBS-DTS-2008-v02","producers":[{"name":"Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"CBS","affiliation":"National Planning Commission Secretariat, Government of Nepal","role":"Documentation of the study"}],"prod_date":"2010-11-26","version_statement":{"version":"Version 01: Central Bureau of Statistics - Original documentation of the study.\nVersion 02: Revised version of metadata as per the recommendation of ADP assessement report, 25 October 2015."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"NPL-CBS-DTS-2008-v1","title":"Distributive Trade Survey of Nepal 2008","alt_title":"DTS 2008"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Central Bureau of Statistics","affiliation":"National Planning Commission Secretariat, Government of Nepal"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(c) 2008, Central Bureau of Statistics, Government of Nepal","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Economic Reform Technical Assistant Project, Government of Nepal","abbreviation":"ERTA","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Director of Publication, Disemination and Library Section","affiliation":"Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal","email":"archive@cbs.gov.np","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Enterprise Survey [en\/oth]","series_info":"The Distributive Trade Survey of Nepal, 2008  was the only trade  survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal. The DTS, first ever conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) was carried out under the financial support of Economic Reform Technical Assistance Project (ERTA) of the government."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1 : Edited Data for internal use only.","version_date":"2008-10-30"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"business\/industrial management and organisation [2.2]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"As wholesale and retail trade of goods has a significant contribution to the economy of the country, the Distributive Trade Survey of Nepal 2008 was implemented with the aim of providing reliable information on wholesale and retail trade to policy makers and planners for understanding the structure, contribution and other aspects of wholesale and retail trade in Nepal. Apart from that, this survey is considered as a benchmark survey for assessing the contribution of wholesale and retail trade to the national economy. \n\nThe survey collects:\n \nIntermediate consumption, stocks and other economic data relating to wholesale collect information such as employment, compensation of employee, income, and retail trade that are required for national accounts purpose; estimate trade margins by some major commodities, and analyze the data and disseminate to the policy makers, planners, researchers, businessmen and other users.","time_periods":[{"start":"2007-07-16","end":"2008-07-15","cycle":""}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2007-07-16","end":"2008-07-15","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Nepal","abbreviation":"NPL"}],"geog_coverage":"National Urban \/ rural areas","analysis_unit":"Trade establishments (wholesale and retail)","universe":"All trade establishments operating in the country, having registered in any government unit were covered in this Survey. A trade establishment is an economic unit engaged in wholesale or retail trade of goods within the national territory under a single ownership or control, i.e. under a single legal entity at a single fixed location. In other words, a trade establishment is an establishment having three characteristics: economic activity (trading), legal status (registered one) and fixed location (housed in fixed structure).","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"This survey collected information on wholesale and retail trade of goods envisaged under Major Division G of NSIC. However, the service parts of this group (repair of motor vehicles, motorcycle and personal and household appliances) have been excluded from this survey."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Central Bureau of Statistics","abbreviation":"CBS","affiliation":"National Planning Commission"},{"name":"Branch Statistics Office","abbreviation":"BSO","affiliation":"Central Bureau of Statistics"}],"sampling_procedure":"The survey is a random sample survey and the sampling frame was constructed from the lists of all establishments. At first, the listing operation of the establishment was conducted all over the country and, nearly 59,000 trade establishments were listed in the country.  \n\nThe Distributive Trade Survey (DTS) used stratified random sampling. Altogether there were 24 strata and stratification of all establishments listed in the country was done by rural\/urban by NSIC two digits of wholesale and retail trade (50, 51 and 52) and by annual transactions. The stratification based on annual transaction was done as follows: \n(i) Less than Rs. 281,000 \n(ii) Rs. 281,000 - Rs. 540,000 \n(iii) Rs. 540,001 - Rs. 1,200,000 \n(iv) More than Rs. 1,200,000.\n\nThe samples were selected randomly from each stratum and around 2955 establishments were selected for enumeration. Out of which, 2843 establishments were enumerated and all estimates given in this report are based on those establishments. \n\nA detailed discussion on the sampling design of the survey can be found Annex B the report titled 'Distributive Trade Survey of Nepal, 2008 A Statistical Report'.","coll_mode":"Face-to-face [f2f]","research_instrument":"The questionnaire contained fourteen sections. The contents of the questionnaire are as follows: \t\n  \t\nSection 1. General Information \t\nSection 2. Legal Status \t\nSection 3. Major Trading Activities  \t\nSection 4. Types of Trade  \t\nSection 5. Employment, Salaries and wages and other facilities \nSection 6. Fixed Assets \t\nSection 7. Sales and Purchages of Goods \nSection 8. Ohter Incomes\nSection 9. Operating Cost\nSection 10. Stocks\nSection 11. Tax paid\nSection 12. Financial Transaction\nSection 13. Problems\/ Constraints","coll_situation":"Altogether, seven training programs were conducted. Out of which, four were for enumerators, two for supervisors and one for branch statistical officers. Nearly 150 staffs, including 33 branch statistical officers, were trained on different aspects of the DTS.\n\nThe data collection of the distributive trade survey was done by the staffs of the branch statistical offices (BSOs) located at 33 districts. Direct interview method was used for data collection and around 120 enumerators were involved for this purpose. Due to heavy workload in Kathmandu valley, the staffs from CBS were also fielded for data collection. \n\nThe survey covered a complete period of 12 months.","act_min":"To maintain the quality of the data, the field supervision was managed with 33 branches statistical officers in their jurisdiction. In addition, the officers from central office also made frequent visits to the field in order to supervise and check the questionnaires in the field itself to minimize errors during the data collection.\n\nThere were 33 supervisors, all Statistical Officers of Branch Statistics Offices.","weight":"the weight variable is available data files of DTS 2008. The derivation of the weights, however, was not discussed in the statistical report.","cleaning_operations":"Data editing took place at a number of stages throughout the processing, including:\n\na) Office editing and coding - inhouse (CBS)\nb) During data entry inhouse (CBS)\nc) Structure checking and completeness - inhouse (CBS)\nd) Secondary editing - inhouse (CBS)\ne) Structural checking of SPSS data files - inhouse (CBS)","method_notes":"The Software CSPro was used for Data Entry, and SPSS Package for the survey result."},"analysis_info":{"response_rate":"The number of sample establishments successfully interviewed was 2,843 of 2955, or 96.20%.","sampling_error_estimates":"Not available","data_appraisal":"Not available"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"Confidentiality of the repsondents is guaranteed by Article 8 of Statistics Act 1958.\n\nRestriction on publication of information and details:\n\nAny 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.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Director General","affiliation":"Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal","email":"dg@cbs.gov.np","uri":"http:\/\/cbs.gov.np\/"}],"cit_req":"Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal. Distributive Trade Survey of Nepal 2008, information downloaded from http:\/\/cbs.gov.np\/nada\/index.php\/catalog on [date].","conditions":"The dataset is available for internal use only.","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 and information of this survey."}}}}