Poverty alleviation being major objective of the government, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has accelerated groundworks to conduct Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) with financial and technical support from World Bank and UNICEF, according to Bikash Bista, Deputy Director General of the bureau. World Bank has provided around Rs 80 million for the purpose. [break]
To make the survey more reliable, the enumerators have been provided with laptops, GPS and anthropometric machines among other most required equipments, according to Dhundi Raj Lamichhane, director of Household Survey Section at CBS. "The surveyors are well equipped this time," Lamichhane said.
This third periodic plan to assess the living standards and the poverty level of the people, the CBS is following Living Standards Measurement methodologies propagated and suggested by the World Bank.
This time, the CBS has prepared a 72-page questionnaire to be asked to 7,200 households in 600 Primary Sampling Units (PSU) throughout the country.
In the second survey held in 2003/2004, there was miscalculation about nutrition measurement among children due to faulty questionnaires.
"This time we will fetch out effective and correct information of poverty and malnutrition," Bista told myrepublica.com, adding that this time they will use anthropometric equipments to calculate height and weight of babies. According to previous NLSS, Nepal´s poverty was 31 percent. The first ever NLSS had shown the poverty level at 42 percent.
"Depending on this survey, plans and programs for the development of the country will be carried out," Bista added.
According to him, this survey will be a key support for the calculation of poverty level in the forthcoming Demographic Census to be held in 2011.
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