Nepal - National Population Census 1952/54

Data Collection

Data Collection Dates

Start	End	Cycle
1952-05-07	1952-05-28	Eastern Side
1954-05-07	1954-05-28	Western Side

Time Periods

Start	End	Cycle
1952-06-22	1954-06-22	N/A

Data Collection Mode

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collection Notes

Five officers from the Sankhya Bibhag were sent to India for the training. When they returned from the training they conducted Pilot test. The Pilot Survey was conducted in Banepa and near village, around 7000 people were enumerated in the survey. From the result of Pilot Survey, all the planning and training program were organized.

Data Collectors

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Sankhya Bivag		Government of Nepal

Supervision

For the preparation of the census, 200 supervisors were trained in the central office in Kathmandu and sent into the field. Operating out of 1657 centers located all over the country, they selected, trained and supervised 17000 enumerators. Most of these were the local state rent collectors. The enumeration involved the transportation from and to Kathmandu of about 19 tons of census schedule forms and publicity materials.

A primary role of the supervisor in the field was editing of data collected by the enumerators.