Transcript Post Enumeration Survey in Nepal Rudra Suwal Director Population Statistics Section Central Bureau of Statistics Nepal.

Post Enumeration Survey in Nepal
Rudra Suwal
Director
Population Statistics Section
Central Bureau of Statistics
Nepal
History of Population Census
Taking
in
Nepal
Census
Population
Growth
Density
year
1911
1920
1930
1941
1952/54
1961
1971
1981
1991
2001
2011 (P)
5,638,749
5,573,788
5,532,574
6,283,649
8,256,625
9,412,996
11,555,983
15,022,839
18,491,097
23,151,423
28,584,975
rate (%)
…
-0.13
-0.74
1.16
2.3
1.65
2.07
2.66
2.1
2.27
2.13
(km²)
38
38
38
43
56
64
79
102
126
157
194
History of Post Enumeration Survey
in Nepal
In Nepal, PES has been conducted since the 1981
Population Census. PES of 2001 was the third in series
to assess the quality of population census data. The
next PES is planned in July- Aug, 2011 immediately
after the PHC 2011
Organization for conducting PES
 Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal is responsible for
conducting population census and PES as well.
 PES is a part of the
activities of Population Census
planned in advance and adequately budgeted for
conducting the program.
Recruitment of Supervisors and
Enumerators
 PES enumerators and supervisors were selected from
the regular staff of CBS . Special emphasis was given
to select qualified and experienced staff to perform
PES field work . Sixty field staff were used for PES
purposes.
Training for Enumerators and
Supervisors
 Enumerators and supervisors were trained by senior
officials of the bureau and UNFPA consultants
intensively for three days and a day field test was also
conducted.
 A syndicate class followed by each general class was
conducted to clarify the issues and to make the
trainees more confident.
Questionnaire Design
 Three sets of questionnaire – Form I, Form II and
Form III were prepared with full set of instruction
manuals.
 A field test of the questionnaire was made in the rural
as well as urban areas of Nepal
Sample Design and Planning
 The survey was planned as an independent interview
of all households in the sampled enumerated areas.
 54 sampled points out of 45 districts in the whole
country was selected. This covered both rural and
urban and all the ecological regions .
 Households were selected in three stages – regions,
districts, wards( rural/urban)
Independence of the PES
 The work was carried out by CBS regular staff who
were different from the staff involved in actual census
operations and data processing work.
 Matching operation was purely desk matching done
by diligent staffs of CBS.

 Two required checking sheets were prepared for
matching purposes.
Analysis domain and results
 The estimates of PES was released at national level only.
As per the estimates, the PES revealed a gross error of
6.2 percent and the net omission rate was found 5.3
percent.
 Content analysis could not be made.
 There was no report produced to inform common users.
The result was shared only for those interested
researchers/ data users.
 However, it was not used for adjusting the census results
Method of matching
 Matching operation was purely desk matching, which
was tedious job and time consuming exercise .
 In order to prepare check lists, data collected was
entered separately for each sample points in IMPS
program and converted in Excell
for checking
correspondence
to each of the census and PES
households.
Reconciliation
 Field reconciliation was done in 12 sample points for
unmatched cases to ensure the omissions.
 Staff were interchanged during the reconciliation
stage.
 Due to time constraints field revisit could not be
made in all sample points.
Plan and objective of the 2011 PES
 PES is a part of the PHC 2011 as a scheduled activity of
the census program
 The reference day of the PHC 2011 is June 22, 2011 and
PES is planned to be completed within two months
after the main census date.
 The main objective of the PES 2011 will be to check
coverage error of PHC 2011 and content error for some
major variables.
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