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but size stratification was dropped in case of Reference Period
.. 'unsettled" villages, and purposive selection instead
- of random selection was done in the case of two border 24. The Census of Agriculture 1960 covers the
,tehsils. In Kalat Division, however, a straight random agricultural year, 1st July 1959 to 30th June 1960 in
sample of five percent of the villages in each district case of the settled areas of the Province; Rabi 1960-61
-was selected. Cumulatively the sample for the whole and Kharif 1961 in case of the unsettled areas of .Quetta
-of West Pakistan, excluding tribal agencies, comprised division; and Kharif 1961 and Rabi 1961~62 in case
_]Jfill. villages. of Kalat division and Lasbela district. In the case of
. - - items that refer to a particular point of time such as the
number of family members, livestock, implements,
20. The total number of villages in a tehsil/taluka
;and the number of villages selected in the sample is etc., the reference period is the period of enumeration
·shown in Appendix B. which was as follows :
(i) Divisions of Peshawar, Dera 1st June,..
Ismail Khan, Lahore, Rawalpindi, 1960 to
,Census Methodology
Sargodha, Multan and Bahawalpur 15th July
and settled areas of Quetta and 1960
· · 21. ·Information in the Census was partly col-
l ected from the Revenue records and partly by direct District Karachi.
interviews with the farmers and · livestock holders. (ii) Divisions of Hyderabad and 1st Aug.,_
"The ·decision to use the Revenue records as a source Khairpur. 1960 to .
•-of information regarding the number and area of farms, ·15th Sept.
~fragmentation, tenure, land-use and cropping, was 1960 .
1,~sed on the consideration that such elaborate records, _ (iii) Unsettled areas of Quetta 1st Nov., .. ·
:maintained regularly by . the · Revenue Department, Division. 1961 to-
-would yield more reliable information than the one . 15th Dec.,.
i o be obtained by direct interviews. The Census 1961
,questionnaire was, therefore, divided into two parts. _ (iv) DistrictLasbelaofKarachi 12th Feb .•
.Part 'A' consisted of items for which information was Division. 1962 to
·to be obtained from the records. Part 'B' consisted 7th April~ ..
,of items for which information was to be obtained by 1962
-direct interviews with the farmers and livestock holders. (v) Kalat Division 16th Feb-
In the unsurveyed areas of Quetta, Kalat and Karachi ruary, 1962
..divisions, however, the entire questionnaire had to be to 31st May, _
ml.led in by direct interviews. ..
1962
Originally the plan was to hold the Census simul-
22. For the purpose of part 'A' of the question- taneously throughout the settled areas of the Province.
mii,ire the 'khasra girdawri' register of the Revenue But in actual fact it was not possible as the Revenue--
·Departl!len! _was ust:,d as th~ main. source. This regis- Department was not in a position to spare the staff for
.. t~r, mamt~med ~or every village, is a record of a simultaneous Census throughout the Province.
bia~nual mspect1on ?f each Kh~sra (plot of la1;1d), Consequently, Census enumeration in the two southern
•earned out. by the ~1llage Patwarzs (Revenue O~cial) . . divisions of Hyderabad and Khairpur had to be done
In the r~gister, · agamst each plot of land bea~mg a two months later. Also in the case of non-reporting
number, is shown the total area as measured m the areas of Quetta and-Kalat divisions efwhi h the peculiar
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:cadastral survey, the nam~ of the owner, the type of conditions called for special arrangements in respe_ct,
land, the name of ~he cultivator for each crop sea~on, of staff and procedures, the Census enumeration had: __
~and the land-use 1~ eac~ crop ~eason. :rhe register to be done at different periods.
mas columns for recordmg the mformat10n for four -
-crop years. According to the instructions governing Scope of the Census and the Questionnaire ·
the maintenance of this register, the entry about the
·1and-use and the name of the cultivator is to be made 25. The government departments had been
-0n the spot for . each crop season, after actual pressing for the inclusion of a large number of items
,inspection of the Khasra.
relating to their Tespective subjects, but it was not
possible to meet all their requirements mainly for
23. While taking the Census the enumerators two reasons: (a) the Census had to be restricted to basic
iirst prepared _a list (Form I-A) from the Revenue information; and (b) the length of the questionnaire
y ~cord of all the farmers operating farms in the sample had to be kept within a reasonable limit so that the
·villages. They then proceeded to interview the far- field work could be completed in the specified period.·
n ers in order to determine their residential status of six weeks. In the selection of items, however~
-since only the residenttl _were to be 'enumerated. At · an important decision was taken that questions regarding-
·the same time- they preparedJists of the livestock holders ownership- of lancf be omitted from the questionnaire
,and subsequently started oral interviews of those who _ which in the initial stages had been included. This
resided in the·village and ~ filled in part 'B' of the was because the test census had revealed that .the
•,questionnaire. - On completion of that they proceeded ownership pattern was too complicated to be covered
to extract relevant information from the Revenue in a Census designed mainly to collect data on-
:rrecord for the sake of part 'A' of the questionnaire. operational farms.