Sample characteristics: Nepal
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Population Census 2001 |
| Statistical agency | Central Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All individuals residing within the kingdom |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | June 22, 2001 |
| Field work period | June 11-21. 2001 |
| Questionnaire | There are two forms used. Schedule 1 (Short form) is used to collect the information of all households and individuals. Schedule 2 (Long form) is used to collect information of the households and individuals from the sampled households. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration via house-to-house visits and personal interviews. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sampling is used to draw sample households from all areas except in 6 districts (Rasuwa , Mugu, Humla, Dolpa, Mustang and Manang) and 52 (out of 58) municipalities, which were instead fully enumerated. In this sampling, the first serial number of house is randomly selected by the supervisor, and other numbers are selected by systematically mathematical procedure. The sampling rate is 1:8 for all ward/sub wards. IPUMS subsampled fully enumerated geographies and computed household weights to match district by household size distribution. |
| Sample fraction | 0.0893 |
| Sample size (person records) | 2067609 |
| Sample weights | Household weights computed by IPUMS to match published district by household size distribution. Some wards could not be enumerated due to "political disturbances" during the enumeration period, but the Central Bureau of Statistics produced estimates for the number of households and persons in these wards. IPUMS household weights inflate to the totals that include estimates of households not able to be enumerated. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Places which are being used by people to live in, having four walls on the all four sides, a roof and one or more room or storey. |
| Households | A household means a group of people living together based on the same source of income and take their meal in the same kitchen. In a household there might be only one person/many person, relatives or not relatives as well. The main basis for identifying household members of a household is decided by income expenses and kitchen concept. |
| Collective dwellings | Not available |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Population Census 2011 |
| Statistical agency | Central Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All individuals residing within the kingdom |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | June 22, 2011 |
| Field work period | June 17-27, 2011 |
| Questionnaire | There are two forms used. Schedule 1 (Short form) is used to collect the information of all households and individuals. Schedule 2 (Long form) is used to collect information of the households and individuals from the sampled households. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sampling is used to draw sample households from all areas except in 6 districts (Rasuwa , Mugu, Humla, Dolpa, Mustang and Manang) and 52 (out of 58) municipalities, which were instead fully enumerated. In this sampling, the first serial number of house is randomly selected by the supervisor, and other numbers are selected by systematically mathematical procedure. The sampling rate is 1:8 for all ward/sub wards. IPUMS subsampled fully enumerated geographies to achieve approximately the equivalent of a 1:8 sample. |
| Sample fraction | 0.12 |
| Sample size (person records) | 3238842 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 8.1) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | District |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Dwellings generally have one or more than one room or floor, outer walls of concrete or mud wall with raw materials, a roof and are used by people for dwelling purposes. |
| Households | A household is a group of people living together based on the same source of income who take their meals in the same kitchen. In a household there might be only one person or many person, relatives or not relatives as well. The main basis for identifying household members is the shared income and kitchen concept. |
| Collective dwellings | Group quarters are considered instituational households such as jails, orphanages, mental hospitals, army and police barracks, cantonments, foster homes, hostels, old age homes, or rehabilitation centers. |