Statistics Nepal Pvt. Ltd. (NSTAT), a private statistical institute, is established to provide research which produces and disseminates objective, timely and accurate statistical information by using in full the possibilities of contemporary information technique and communication technologies to public and private organizations. It also aimed to work for the statistical literacy of professionals, for recruiting and preparing future statisticians, and to promote data-based decision making in South Asia includes Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.
Statistics Nepal Pvt. Ltd. (NSTAT) advocates statistics as a science and profession, promote statistical literacy, statistical education in Nepal and South Asia and international cooperation in statistics. It also provides project and consultancy services through its network of international and regional experts. It has a multi-disciplinary team of experts who have extensive experience and knowledge of problems and issues in different parts of the world. NSTAT's pool of resources includes a network of domestic and international professionals from diverse disciplines such as health, management, market research, socio-economic development, agriculture, and information and communication technology.
Through the network of domestic, regional and international regional experts, NSTAT is in a business ready position to handle qualitative, quantitative and mixed research of these of any size and duration on health, business and other domains. NSTAT professional experts are mastered in their own business domain like health including HIV and marketing of health related products and services. Team Business of NSTAT is also equipped with very energetic and experience in product and service design, pricing, distribution and promotion in very effective and efficient manner.
Statistics Nepal Pvt. Ltd. (NSTAT) focuses on the services offered by itself and from partners through stringent quality control check points. NSTAT do follow the national and international standards and set frameworks. It also do the validation of content through authentic sources and in-source the service of experts of related domain and category. NSTAT also checks the every activity and process that is related to research.
Statistics Nepal Pvt. Ltd. (NSTAT) confirms the capacity to conduct any research limited to any part of country or whole Nepal. The man power planning will be done size, nature and tenure of the project. NSTAT has special capability to recruit large number of manpower since we have experts closely monitor big research projects like census.
Statistics Nepal Pvt. Ltd. has been collecting, processing and producing statistics from its establishment. Many government agencies which are involved in producing the statistics has not adopted the quality assurance system in its survey. Government agency started the Nepal labor Force Survey 2009/10 (NLFS II) which is the second round of a multi topic national labour force survey from January to December 2009. The first National Labor Force Survey was carried out Government in 1998/99. This second survey was followed up to first Nepal Labour Force Survey. The survey helps to update the national labor force statistics but also helps to compare the change in labor and labor market conditions in Nepal in the last nine years. The NLFS II was conducted in two stage stratified sampling scheme which was same sample design scheme in the previous survey.
Statistics Nepal is involved in many surveys evaluation such as Labor Force Survey. Nepal Labor Force Survey was not completed in the stipulated time frame due to late release of fund because funding donor communities, sometimes, release the funds very late after starting of household listing operations so that survey implementation does not complete timely. Evaluation Methodology: Extensive Interview Method and Group Discussions were conducted for collecting the information required for the evaluating the project. Few field trips were organized to Kaski, Banke, Syangja, Morang, Doti, Surkhet and Nuwakot to discussion with the Branch Statistics Office staff about the experiences of field work. A comprehensive list of questions was developed in advance to facilitate the discussions.
Secondly, the evaluation team conducted a discussion and series of interview with the core team of Household Survey Section of CBS who were involved in the Nepal Labor Force Survey and discussed about the input and output of the project. A list of pre-designed questions was used in the interview and discussion. The evaluation was conducted based on the information derived from the interviews, available documents on the Project and "Self-evaluation" performed by the staff involved in the project.
There are seven families of evaluation criteria. They are relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, impact, coherence/complementarity, community valued added. National Statistical Institute evaluated the Nepal Labor Force survey II which was completed at 2009/10 follows the international guidelines of evaluation criteria. Since it is mid-term evaluation, NSI evaluates the survey through the three dimensions only.
