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sities, Research Institutes and a) Tne accuracy of census results
Progressive Farmers. Immediately mainly depended upon the
after -collecting the views of the quality of enumeration which ·
data user agencies regarding their · in turn largely rested upon
requirements, a meeting of . the the adequacy . of training and
Advisory Committee W&S convened to effectiveness of supervision
seek the advice of the members on of enumerators. In case of
census methodology, enumerating complete census, around thirty
agency, questionnaire co"ntents, thousand (30,000) enumerators
etc. Preliminary census plans were were required. Training and
drawn up on the recommendations of supervision of such a large
the Advisory Committee and were staff and achieving the re- ·
-given a fair trial in the field to quired•stahdards appeared dif-
judge their suitability under the fictilt. Similar problems were ·
prevailing socio-economic condi- envisaged for different data
tions. The results of pretesting processing stages and printing
were analyzed and placed before the of the census data.
members of· the Advisory Committee
for final consideration of the cen- b) In case of a compiete census,
sus plans. it would have not been
feasible to publish data below
Since the census was to be the level of district, due to ·
taken on s~mple basis · and its exorbitant expenditure on
coverage w~s extended to all over tabulation and printing and
the country, two expert groups, one also because of no much demand
on sampling and the. other on deter- of data at lower level of ad-
mination of . uniform concepts and ministration. On the other
terminoiogyfor various items, were hand, for supply of tabula-
also formed. The census procedures tions at district level, a
adopted · in the previous censuses sample census could provide
were thoroughly examined in the almost equally good results at
meetings of those groups and recom- a much lesser cost.
mendations were made for evolving a
most suitable sampl~ design and Scope
· uniform concepts· and terminology.
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The scope of the census was
.
. The census plans were given restricted · to the Agricultural
final shape on the basis of the Farms whether held or operated by
recommendations made by the members the government or by private house-
of · the Advisory Committee and Ex- holds. Consequently, the undistri-
pert Groups. The advice of the mem- buted government land other than
bers of the Advisory- committee was · government farms, undistributed
also sought on the tabulation plan portion of the land resumed by the
through which the census data were government under land . . refo:r:ms,
to be presented. built up areas, land under . roads,
rivers, . government forests, etc.,
Type and·Ge6graphical falling under the cat~gory ot non-
coverage of the Census farm area, is outside the scope of
the .census. The agricultural farms
The 19~0 Cerisus of Agriculture also include landless· livestock
had a country coverage but was holdings. The · following chart il-
based on sample enumeration ·like lustrate the part of land covered
previous censuses, mainly for . the in the census.
following considerations:
(xvi)
