Central Bureau of Statistics
2019-07-03
Nesstar Publisher
v1 (July 2019): anonymous dataset for public distribution (under certain legal conditions)
National Economic Census 2018
NEC 2018
Rastriya Aarthik Ganana 2075
NPL-CBS-NEC-2018-v01
Central Bureau of Statistics
Japan International Cooperation Ajecny
Nesstar Publisher
Government of Nepal
Regular Budget
Director of Publication, Dissemination and Library Section
Enterprise Census [en/census]
Economic Census
Establishment Unit
Registration
Business entity
Nepal
Geographically, the Census has covered the whole nation, that is, 753 Local levels under 77 district and seven provinces of the country. All establishments except the mentioned excluded sectors were completely enumerated in the economic census.
Establishment
All the establishments engaged in non-agriculture economic activities and (registered) agriculture, forestry and fishery economic activities according to NSIC-2018, except Section-O (Public administration and defense; compulsory social security), Section-T (Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services- producing activities of households for own use) and Section-U (Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies), were included in the scope of National Economic Census 2018. Not registered Agriculture activities of Section A was not covered as such activities have been or under the scope of National Sample Census of Agriculture. Similarly, Section-O was excluded considering the information on the activities are covered from the government sector. As such, Section-T was excluded considering that activities under this section have been conventionally covered partly by the Agriculture Census and partly by the Labor Force Survey. The establishments under Section-U were not covered in the scope of the census as the activities under this section are not practically taken into account to the national accounts I-6 aggregates globally and kept outside the scope of the economic census.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Central Bureau of Statistics
Face-to-face [f2f]
A total of about 484 field supervisors were mobilized temporarily for the Census, and were seconded from qualified staff of CBS/SOs or other offices. Each supervisor was assigned a certain number of enumerators to accomplish their duties which were described in Supervisor’s Manual. In the central level supervisor, JICA team also included.
In this census, Nepal Standard Industrial Classification (NSIC) 2018, prepared by the CBS following International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) Rev.4, was used to codify the economic activities of the establishments. The data processing activity was intensively supervised in different tiers by the staff of CBS. The coding, editing and data entry activities were strongly supervised by the officers of respective district statistics office and CBS. The data entry application was designed using CSPro 7.0 in such a way that entered data was transferred or uploaded directly to the central server at Kathmandu. It is important to mention that the entered data at districts were also verified at central by the designated officers to make the data flawless to the extent possible.
After digitization of data, The JICA provides technical assitant to generating various tables according to questionnaire.
Director General
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.