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National Census Of 2011
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 16, 2011: the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has launched the national census of 2011 yesterday. The CBS has divided the census in two phases. It has launched the first phase yesterday and will launch the second phase on June 17, 2011.
It has trained 34,000 enumerators for deploying in 3,900 Village Development Areas and 58 municipalities for collecting the data. Around 8,500 supervisors will supervise them.
The CBS has set an ambitious target of collecting numerous data that will take quite some time for entering into computers and data analyzing systems, as the census will include details of migration, reproductive health and economy of households. The question is whether the CBS will mange the data or not, whether the data collected without the signatures or thumbprints of persons giving the information will be reliable, and whether enumerators will correctly collect the data.
In the past some people had alleged that most of the enumerators did not reach the houses of the people rather sat under a banyan tree in remote villages and filled out the forms. The CBS needs to avoid such things happening again. This might be possible by making the mandatory of getting signatures or thumbprints of the persons giving information, and then verifying ten percent of those signatures and thumbprints randomly.
