Informal Sector Enterprise Survey 2024

Nepal, 2024 - 2025

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Reference ID

NPL_2024_ISES_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Bank Group (WBG)

Collection(s)

Enterprise Surveys

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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May 23, 2025

Last modified

May 23, 2025

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Main reason of not being registered (NPLr3)

Data file: Nepal-2024-ISES-full-data.dta

Overview

Valid: 1315

Invalid: 1220

Minimum: -9

Maximum: 10

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 470

End: 471

Width: 2

Range: -9 - 10

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	1	0.1%
-7	Refusal (spontaneous)	3	0.2%
1	Cost to register	221	16.8%
2	Lack information about where and how to register	122	9.3%
3	No benefit to being registered	151	11.5%
4	Taxes if registered	49	3.7%
5	Inspections and meetings with officials if registered	3	0.2%
6	Informal payments needed if registered	1	0.1%
7	Exposure to more competition if registered	7	0.5%
8	Registration does not apply to a business like mine	324	24.6%
9	Time to register	115	8.7%
10	Other(spontaneous)	318	24.2%
Sysmiss		1220

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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