Kathmandu, Dec. 2 -- In a first, the Central Bureau of Statistics will be accumulating data on livestock, housing facilities for the animals, and community infrastructure in what it says will be the most comprehensive survey ever done in the country.

The bureau conducts a survey on population and housing every 10 years. The last census, held in 2010-11, showed the total population of the country is 26.49 million, with 5,427,302 residential households. Data showed that of the total number of households, there were 5,423,297 individual homes and the rest were institutional infrastructure, such as schools, police stations, government buildings, among others.

According to officials at the bureau, they did not reach out to all the households...