In its report, Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said that 29.8 percent of Nepali enterprises are owned by women, which is 247,880 Nepali enterprises.

“This is really a good sign and it suggests that women in Nepal are coming out from household chores,” said Suman Raj Aryal, CBS Director General.

As per the Nepal Economic Census 2018, women own enterprises related to wholesale, retail and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles are the highest number of women-owned enterprises.

Likewise, women-owned accommodation & food service activities and manufacturing enterprises come second and third.

“It is really an encouraging figure compared to the past. But, we should not stop here,” said Saraswoti Rai, Women Entrepreneurship Development Committee member.

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These figures were obtained after a rigorous two-month survey conducted by Nepal’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). However, the final report is expected to be published by January 2019.

The survey was initiated with an aim to collected important statistics from all establishments in Nepal and assess the country’s economic situation.

Pramod Raj Regmi, CBS information officer says that the studies show that there are about 900,000 factories in Nepal including micro-enterprises and large production plants.

What does the Study Aim to Find Out?
This data will help in the following ways:

• Formulate policies at the federal, provincial and local levels, based on evidence found
• Consolidate the national account system
• Enhance policy and planning by industrialists, businessmen and investors for business promotion and prosperity
• Assist academic researchers in conducting research
• Identify several indicators for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Organizations Covered in the Survey:
Under the survey, CBS collected data from all private state-owned enterprises, cooperatives, NGOs and some other institutions including temples, political organizations and foreign setups’ branch offices.

However, the study has not collected data from international organizations, embassies, multilateral institutions, the defense sector, public administration, social security schemes, household-produced goods and services, street vendors and sectors like agriculture, fishery and forestry.

Regmi explains that the reason agriculture was excluded because the CBS has been conducting Agricultural Census every 10 years.

The Data Collection Process:
4,000 CBS statisticians were assigned with the task of collecting data. Each person had to cover 15 establishments in urban areas and 8 establishments in rural areas, on a per day basis.

Regmi says the officials collected data from 300 municipalities through the internet.

Japan International Co-operation Agency assisted Nepal Government in conducting the country’s first economic census.

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