8 ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE IN NEPAL ESTIMATION AND PROJECTION ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE IN NEPAL: ESTIMATING PREVALENCE With the previous study estimating 4,346,046 people without citizenship certificates in Nepal till the year 2011, it was felt necessary to update the study to make it more relevant in the present context. Citizenship certificates have been regularly distributed in the years after 2011 with the total eligible population also having significantly changed in those years. The number of people without citizenship certificate can thus be presumed to have changed in those years. Objective The study estimates the number of people with and without citizenship certificates in Nepal till the year 2014 Data Collection The data as of 16 July 2014 regarding the number of citizenship certificates distributed was used from various agencies of the Government of Nepal, including: • Records of citizenship certificate distribution from 2011 to 2014 from MoHA to find out the number of persons who have acquired citizenship certificates in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; • The National Population and Housing Census (NPHC) 2011 (Hereinafter referred to as ‘2011 Census’) from the Central Bureau of Statistics, which provides data of the population above 16 years of age in Nepal till 2011. This data has been used to statistically calculate the number of persons above the age of 16 in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. Methodology The methodology for calculating the number of people without citizenship certificate for the years 2011, 2012, 2012 and 2014 is similar to the one used in the previous study published in April 2013.9 9. FWLD, Acquisition of Citizenship Certificate in Nepal: Estimating Prevalence, April 2013, Kathmandu.