Preparation for economic survey over

Kathmandu, April 12: Preparation for a nationwide economic survey has been over. The National Statistics Office informed that enumerators and supervisors reached respective areas for the count. 

The economic census is beginning from April 15. As per schedule, data collection from field will complete by June 21. Nearly 5,000 workforces have been mobilized for the enumeration. 

Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle has urged all industrial entities, enterprises and concerned persons to involve actively in economic census. He viewed the data collection on economic and industrial sectors counts much for national plan and policy making.

Basic details of 18 sectors under economy will be gathered under the survey. The details like number of industries, enterprises, service sector, cooperatives and private and public entities, their types, employment, production and service delivery are collected as part of the survey.

All trade entities- big and small, registered and unregistered- would be enumerated and the employment data listed. Even the non-government organization, public corporation, government and private schools and hospitals would be counted for survey.

   Offices in all 77 districts were established for the survey in the third week of March. Later, seven more offices were set up. These facilities will be continued till coming mid July.

The National Statistics Office has requested one and all to cooperate with the government initiative in collecting accurate and necessary data. The last such survey was held seven years back, which revealed that Nepal had over 923 thousand institutions and industrial entities.  (RSS)