Consumer Price Index

20th July 2010 : NSB is pleased to release Consumer Price Index (CPI) Bulletin for the 2nd Quarter ending 30th June 2010. The year-on-year inflation is estimated at 6.14%. This is contributed by rise in prices of food items by 6.90%, and non-food items by 5.73%.<< Read More >>

Walking tough: Enumerators on their way to remote Laya in North Bhutan 

BMIS data collection at 3,800 meters

May 2010, Way to Laya: Be it rain, hailstorm, snowfall, burning sun, we continued our hike to interview the mountain people of Bhutan. After two days of walk from the road head, the Gasa enumeration team, sweating and exhausted from the intense hike in the sun, arrive in Laya village at 3,800 metres above sea level.<< Read More >>

Practical session:
Measuring child's height

BMIS data collection training underway

7 April 2010, Thimphu:Over 200 enumerators are under-going a two-week training on data collection for the Bhutan Multiple Indicator Survey (BMIS). The survey, conducted for the first time in Bhutan, will cover over 15,000 households in all the 20 districts. << Read More >>

Launching BhutanInfo

Thimphu, 3 Dec. 2009: The National Statistics Bureau (NSB) and the UN system in Bhutan officially launched BhutanInfo on 03 December 2009 at Hotel Tashi Taj in Thimphu................ << Read More >>

Small Area Estimation Training

Paro, 20-24th November 2009:The NSB in collaboration with UNSIAP conducted 5 days basic training on Small Area Estimation. The Professor was provided by UNSIAP, and there were 22 participants (14 from NSB and others from various Ministries and Organization). During 5 days training the participants were taught with basic STATA software and how to estimate small area using different methods. The training was funded by UNFPA

Annual Statistics Quiz Competition

Monggar, 28th October 2009: The Annual Statistics Quiz competition was organized by the National Statistics Bureau (NSB) with financial support from the UNFPA (Zamling Chi Tsog MiLhop MaNguel). << Read More >>