Vital Registration System in Nepal: An Overview

Authors

  • Rudra Prasad Gautam Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu

Keywords:

Vital Registration System, Population, Census survey, Nepal

Abstract

Vital Events Registration System (VERS) is an important source to generate and update population data regularly on vital registration. Realizing its importance Nepal government has initiated to start it from the beginning of the 1960s and started since 1977 backing by law. Despite the policies and plans of action of the Nepal government and support from various international agencies, the system could not be an effective instrument to generate regular data on population. The data generated from this source is not complete and reliable for public use till date.

The Economic Journal of Nepal

Vol. 35, No. 4, October-December 2012 (Issue N0. 140)

Page: 235-251

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Author Biography

Rudra Prasad Gautam, Central Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu

Associate Professor

Published

2015-07-27

How to Cite

Gautam, R. P. (2015). Vital Registration System in Nepal: An Overview. Economic Journal of Nepal, 35(4), 235–251. Retrieved from https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/EJON/article/view/13065

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 4 (2012)

Section

Articles

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