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National Census Of 2011
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 18, 2011: the second phase of the national census held every 10 years has started off on Friday, June 17, 2011. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has deployed 46,500 enumerators including 8,500 supervisors for a 10-day-long data collection. They will work for 10 days in 3,900 Village Development Areas and 50 municipalities across Nepal.
Director General of CBS Uttam Narayan Malla has said that the CBS has prepared questionnaires in 10 ethnic languages such as Maithili, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Tamang, Gurung, Newari, Magar, Awadhi, Rai and Limbu in addition to Nepali for the convenience of respondents; two types of questionnaires: one for household information and the other for individual information are used for population and household census of 2011. For the first time in the history of Nepalese census, the third gender and their information will be recorded in a separate table.
When everything seems to be fine, the question is how reliable will be the census. In the past, the reliability of census had been questioned because enumerators had failed to reach rural households; and they had filled out the forms sitting under banyan trees.
The state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’ of today has the news about the local people in Rukum have complained that the supervisors supposed to visit every household in the villages allocated to them in the first phase of the census of 2011 have not come to them but they have filled out the forms at their homes. In the first phase they have to visit villages for collecting the data on the number of households and the number of family members but that has not happened according to the locals.
