Discuss (a) Statistics Act

The census's law: the Statistics Act 2015 B.S. (1958) (the statistical system's foundation: the census's-and-the surveys' legal authority (the collector's power + the respondent's duty (the compulsory-truthful-answers craft; the confidentiality's discipline)); the National Statistics Office (the former Central Bureau of Statistics — the Statistics Act 2075's modernised frame) as the census's conductor); the census's practice (the decennial National Population and Housing Census — the modern series' twelve editions; the de-jure-and-de-facto counting's craft (the usual- residency principle); the household-and-the individual questionnaires (the housing, the demographics, the education, the work, the disability-and-the ethnicity faces)). The surveys' law: the sample surveys' world (the Nepal Living Standards Surveys, the Demographic and Health Surveys — the inter-census machinery (the Act's statistical umbrella)); the administrative records (the registration systems' own data). The vital events registration: the historical Births, Deaths and Other Personal Events (Registration) Act 2033 (1976) → the modernised Vital Events Registration Act 2076 (2019) (the online-era registration (the local governments' post- federalism conduct (the Palika's registrar)); the registrable events (the birth, the death, the marriage, the divorce, the migration, the missing); the duty-to-register + the certificate's evidentiary value (the citizenship's-and-the services' gateway document); the time-limits-and-the late-registration craft (the fees' discipline)); the registration's demographic value (the continuous- counting system (the census's interval filler — the civil-registration's completeness the demographic-quality's core).