Census 2011 phase-II starts today
KATHMANDU, JUN 17 -
The second phase of Census 2011 is starting from Friday. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), enumerators are already in the fields to swing into action.
CBS has deployed 46,500 enumerators, including 8,500 supervisors, at 3,900 VDCs and 50 municipalities. During the 10-day-long census held in every 10 year, officials will count the number of people living in the country and collect information about them.
The head of the state is going to be registered as an ordinary citizen for the first time in a century-long history of national census, said chief of CBS Population Unit Rudra Suwal. “The questionnaires are same for all. The president will be the first person to be registered on Friday.”
A 10-member team, including CBS Director General Uttam Narayan Malla and National Planning Commission Vice Chairman Dinesh Chandra Devkota, will register the president’s name to officially declare inauguration of Census 2011. Similarly, enumerators will also collect information of the vice president, the prime minister and the CA speaker the same day.
An estimated population of 28.5 million is said to be living in Nepal, on the basis of which CBS has estimated one enumerator for an average number of 200 households. According to Malla, Nepal has one of the longest censuses of its own kind in the world with more than 50 major questions. “Even China has 30 and USA has 20 questionnaires this year,” Malla said.
The questionnaires contain a long list of information to be filled to include all religions, castes, ethnicity, sex, occupation, economic status, migrant workers, third genders and many more, he said.
CBS has readied questionnaires in 10 languages—Maithili, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Tamang, Gurung, Newari/Nepal Bhasa, Magar, Awadhi, Rai and Limbu— for the convenience of respondents. Two types of questionnaires—one for household information and the other for individual information—are being used for population and household census 2011.
The most awaited part—result of the census—will be made public in three months. “Outcomes is this census held after the decade-long conflict will be very interesting,” said Suwal.
Similarly, one set of questionnaire seeks information whether or not family members went abroad because of the conflict in the country. It also includes details of maternal mortality rate, migration, reproductive health and economy of households.
The census is held in two phases. The first phase had started on May 16 and ended June 3 collecting general information such as number of households, number of family members and head of family and occupation. The second phase beginning Friday will go until June 27.
CBS officer Suwal said the enumerators have been instructed to be flexible while filling the data to get right answers.
Source: Kantipur
The second phase of Census 2011 is starting from Friday. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), enumerators are already in the fields to swing into action.
CBS has deployed 46,500 enumerators, including 8,500 supervisors, at 3,900 VDCs and 50 municipalities. During the 10-day-long census held in every 10 year, officials will count the number of people living in the country and collect information about them.
The head of the state is going to be registered as an ordinary citizen for the first time in a century-long history of national census, said chief of CBS Population Unit Rudra Suwal. “The questionnaires are same for all. The president will be the first person to be registered on Friday.”
A 10-member team, including CBS Director General Uttam Narayan Malla and National Planning Commission Vice Chairman Dinesh Chandra Devkota, will register the president’s name to officially declare inauguration of Census 2011. Similarly, enumerators will also collect information of the vice president, the prime minister and the CA speaker the same day.
An estimated population of 28.5 million is said to be living in Nepal, on the basis of which CBS has estimated one enumerator for an average number of 200 households. According to Malla, Nepal has one of the longest censuses of its own kind in the world with more than 50 major questions. “Even China has 30 and USA has 20 questionnaires this year,” Malla said.
The questionnaires contain a long list of information to be filled to include all religions, castes, ethnicity, sex, occupation, economic status, migrant workers, third genders and many more, he said.
CBS has readied questionnaires in 10 languages—Maithili, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Tamang, Gurung, Newari/Nepal Bhasa, Magar, Awadhi, Rai and Limbu— for the convenience of respondents. Two types of questionnaires—one for household information and the other for individual information—are being used for population and household census 2011.
The most awaited part—result of the census—will be made public in three months. “Outcomes is this census held after the decade-long conflict will be very interesting,” said Suwal.
Similarly, one set of questionnaire seeks information whether or not family members went abroad because of the conflict in the country. It also includes details of maternal mortality rate, migration, reproductive health and economy of households.
The census is held in two phases. The first phase had started on May 16 and ended June 3 collecting general information such as number of households, number of family members and head of family and occupation. The second phase beginning Friday will go until June 27.
CBS officer Suwal said the enumerators have been instructed to be flexible while filling the data to get right answers.
Source: Kantipur
