Economic Census
According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 8,433 establishments in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 30,169 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 16,929 and female engagement of 13,240 persons.In every business, there were an average of 3.58 people engaged with average males are 2.01 and females are 1.57. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.28, which means as many as 1.28 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.
Similarly, the engagement of males were 56.11 percent while the females are 43.89 percent.