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

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May 23, 2025

Last modified

May 23, 2025

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Main source of money used to start or acquire this business (NPLb8)

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

Overview

Valid: 2177

Invalid: 358

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 160

End: 161

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-9	Don't know (spontaneous)	0	0%
-7	Not applicable (spontaneous)	0	0%
1	Own funds	1588	72.9%
2	Friends or relatives	432	19.8%
3	Moneylenders	28	1.3%
4	Microfinance institutions, or non-bank financial companies	99	4.5%
5	Private Banks	9	0.4%
6	State owned banks	2	0.1%
7	Remittances	14	0.6%
8	Grants	1	0%
9	Other sources	4	0.2%
Sysmiss		358

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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