Nepal - Land Transport Survey 2013

v2: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution

2014-10-30

The Nepal Land Transport Survey 2013 envisages to estimate size, structure, employment contribution and value added contribution of the public land transport sector to the natiional economy. The key survey results have been presented to the 10 types of vehicles (Bus/Minibus, truck/minitruck/tipper, taxi, jeep/van, microbus, tempo, tractor/power tiller, tourist vehicles, water tanker, petrol tanker). The survey has adopted stratified cluster sampling design. Total sample size is1736. The sampling frame has been prepared by the list of affiliated vehicles' owners obtained from their respective associations. The weight of the vehicles by its type was generated by using the number of vehicles registered in the Transport Management Department. The reference period of the survey was 2011-12. The data collection was carried out during January to July in 2013. Branch Statistics Offices were mobilized for data collection. Altogether, 57 enumerators and supervisors including 12 females had been involved during data collection phase. The statistical report of the survey contains 3 chapters. Second and third chapter describe survey results containing 10 and 19 tables respectively. The survey reveals that there were totally 118544 public vehicles in Nepal during the reference period. Buses (32 percent) accounted for highest number of vehicles following by trucks (22 percent), tractors (14 percent) and jeeps (9 percent).There were 89 percent of the vehicles that were running during the reference year 2011-12 had been manufactured in India. Mean years of vehicles that are operated since manufactured is 8 years. Tourist vehicles were found to be the oldest in terms of years of manufacturing (20.9 years). The mean period of operation of the public transport vehicles in Nepal is 238 days in a year. Water tankers were found to be the most operated vehicles (317 days) whereas petrol tankers were operated 136 days in a reference year. About 15 percent of the entrepreneurs suggested to improve the condition of the roads. Almost 8 percent of them reported the restriction of strikes in transport sector and 7.2 percent reported the strict compliance of traffic rules. Altogether 282 thousand individuals were involved in public land transport sector regularly. Five out of thousand employees are found to be female in public land transport service

Sample survey data [ssd]

Establishment is the enumeration unit of the survey and the basic unit of data analysis is "type of vehicle".