1. Presentation Outlines
Historical perspectives
Legal provision
Institutional and organizational settings of NA mechanism
IT capacity
NA Compilation practices
Ongoing programs
Future plans

2. Historical Perspective
First attempt in 1961/62 by then Ministry of Economic Planning
Gap of two years
Responsibility shifted to CBS
Continuation after 1964/65

3. Legal provision Statistical act 1958
Status of present Central Bureau of Statistics
Role and responsibility of CBS
Legal provision regarding system of designated statistics

4. Institutional and organizational settings for NA mechanism
Institutional responsibility for NA compilation
Organizational set up

5. IT capacity Personal computers available in NA – for all staff (9)
Internet facilities
Data dissemination by , CD, website (

6. NA compilation practices
GDP predominantly based on Value added approach
Separate estimates of expenditure components except change in stock
Change in stock: residually estimated
No explicit statistical discrepancy
Attempt to produce GDP by income approach

7. Compilation Briefs Follows SNA 1993 Link to compilation practices
Valuation practices
Output: Basic price
Intermediate consumption: Purchasers prices
Price
PPI/Manufacturing, CPI, WPI and others
Volume measures
Benchmark surveys 2004/05

8. Rebasing and linking practices
Analytical and Mechanical rereferencing
base year
1964/65 – Analytical and First NA series
1974/75 – Analytical
1984/85 – Analytical
1994/95 – Mechanical linking
2000/01 - Analytical

9. Status of 93SNA Implementation
System design: what
System realization: How
Adoption of boundaries principles
Adoption of valuation principle
Adoption of SNA recommended classification scheme

10. Ongoing programmes Quarterly National Accounts (QNA)
Preparation of SUT
Preparation of accounts (possibly up to capital accounts)
Business Inquiry (BI) Panel surveys
Preparation of Nepal System of National Accounts( NSNA)

11. Work in progress
Preparation of accounts (possibly up to capital accounts)
Estimating CE, GFCF by industrial classification 3
Preparation of Nepal System of National Accounts( NSNA)

12. Big Push UN support – Strengthening NA of Nepal 1987
ADB Support – Strengthening NA System of Nepal 2005
Conduction of 35 economic surveys
Migration to 1993 SNA
Data assessment for QNA

13. Future plans Public sector account
Preparation of FISIM compliance with SNA

14. Challenges faced
Lack of micro data
Human resource

15. Urgency and Support
Institutionalization of Economic Surveys and Census
Sustainability of Household Surveys (i.e. LSMS, LFS,etc.)
Trainings

16. Data assessment for QNA compilation

17. Thank You