Nepal Labour Force Survey 2017-2018
DDI-NPL-CBS-NLFS-2018-v01
Central Bureau of Statistics
Household Survey Section
Central Bureau of Statistics
2019-07-03
Nesstar Publisher
v1 : anonymous dataset for public distribution (under certain legal conditions)
Nepal Labour Force Survey 2017-2018
Third Round
NLFS 2017-2018
Nepal Sramsakti Sarvekshan 2074/75
NPL-CBS-NLFS-2018-v01
Central Bureau of Statistics
(c) 2018, Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal
Nesstar Publisher
Government of Nepal
International Labour Organization
Director of Publication, Dissemination and Library Section
Labor Force Survey [hh/lfs]
The Nepal Labour Force Survey 2018 (NLFS III) is the third round of labour force surveys in Nepal. The first and second of this kind was conducted in 1998-1999 and 2008 respectively.
v01: Final data for internal use only.
Labour
Labour Force
Labour Force Survey
Nepal Labour Force Survey
Nepal
National Coverage, 14 domains (7 Provinces and by urban rural areas).
Household, Individual
As in the NLFS I and NLFS II, the survey covered whole country. Following the same concept and definition of household as used in population census, i.e. the usual place of residence, all residents of the country including foreign nationals were considered eligible for the survey but households of diplomatic missions and institutional households such as school, hostels, prisons, army camps and hospitals were excluded. People living for six months or more away from the households were not considered eligible and hence were excluded from the survey.
Sample survey data [ssd]
The main objective of the Nepal Labour Force Survey 2017-2018 (NLFS III) was to update labour force statistics. The objective was extended to collect information on other forms work other than employment, which included production of goods and services for own final use and volunteer work . The new concepts and definitions (recommendation of 19th ICLS) used in NLFS III set benchmark statistics on employment, unemployment and underemployment. Such information plays key role in assessing the impact of various government policies and programs planned for employment generation. Likewise, the results from the survey do provide information required for skill development, for managing the flow of migrant workers, for improving the status of women and children, and for assessing the role and importance of the informal sector.
Central Bureau of Statistics
Face-to-face [f2f]
The NLFS II questionnaire was developed on the basis of an ILO recommendation including core and supplementary modules comprising 130 questions in eight sections. This provided guidelines for developing the NLFS III questionnaire. The NLFS III questionnaire was substantially expanded to 168 questions in fourteen sections. The flow of questionnaire structure was organized in such a way that respondents' burden in the survey can be minimized.
Day to day control of each team was in the hands of the team leader, who was a member of the team, but additional supervisory visits were made by the staff from the CBS and the NPC. These visits were particularly important in the early stages of the field period, when interviewers were still not very familiar with the questionnaire. Thus, the extensive field supervisions both from the centre (CBS) and from the districts (SOs) were carried out during the survey period.
Given the final weight adjusted for population projections, the Horwitz-Thompson estimator is used. Oftentimes, variance is estimated through linear approximation or through resampling methods. To estimate proportions, the total in equation of variance is simply divided by the total population count for the segment of interest. For example, to estimate employment rate among females in any domain, equation of variance is used to estimate the total number of employed females in that domain. Then the total number of female in the labor force is used as the denominator to compute the employment rate.
NLFS III is the first paperless large-scale national household survey conducted by the CBS using Tablet computers. Household listing as well as filling-up of main questionnaires was done through Tablets. A central database server was set up in the CBS to manage database of the survey. Enumerators had been allowed to send collected information in the central server after the completion of filling questionnaires and thoroughly reviewing all the information captured in the tablet. Data processing system was centralized in this survey. In this survey, household survey team had more advantage of accessing the data immediately. If any inconsistences were found in data it was informed immediately to the field team so that field staff could confirm the issues before leaving the PSU.
It was advantage of this survey that the burden of data entry was decreased due to the use of tablets for data collection. As usual, the CSPro (Census and Survey Processing) software was used for data management in the NLFS III. Household Survey Section had previous experience of using statistical software (STATA) for preparing output tables from censuses and surveys. So, the required tables for NLFS III were produced using STATA.
Director General
Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal Labour Force Survey 2017-2018.
The dataset has been anonymized and is available for public use.
The Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal bears no responsibility for any outcomes or for interpretations or inferences arising from the use of the data, or use of the information provided on the study.