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Total Area
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Farm Area Non-Farm Area
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Cultivated Uncultivated Abadi Roads Canals Earmark- Undistributed
Area Area Deh & and ed Govt. Govt. Land
I I Urban Rivers Forests Including
I Built Up Land Acquired
Under Land
Net current Reforms
Sown Fallow

Culturable Waste Forest
Including Water-Logged Not ·Available
and Saline Area for Cultivation
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Banj ar Jadeed. Banjar Qade;em

In order to determine the re- questionnaire.
quirements of data users, Federal
and Provincial Government Depart- Scope of the census, as
ments, Research ±nsti tutes and finally approved, included the col-
Universities were approached to lection of data on size -and tenur~
forward their comments on the ques- of farms, land utilization. irriga-
tionnaire used in the last census tion, area under various crops and
and indicate their future require- orchar~si number of fruii and non-
ments for coverage in the next cen- fruit trees, use of -f_ertil-izers and
sus. The comments received - from insecticides, use of - agricultural
these agencies were consolidated rnachiries, livestock population, ei~
and a total picture presented tent of indebtedness and investment
before the Census Ad~isory Corn- made for different purposes,
mi ttee for its consideration. The household members by sex and major
draft - questionnaire was conse- age gro~ps, type _o~ - re~i~ential ·
.
quently prepared on the basis of structures, economic activity of
the recommendations of the members household rn~rnbers, edu6ati6nal
.
of the Advisory Committee and level of hou~e&old members and
tested in the field. The results of their main sources of incnme.
the - pretest were analyzed to ex-
amine the quality of data collected Reference Period
.on various items. The items of less
frequent occurrence . and those on The Cens:us data on land ahd
which meaningtul information could its utilization pertain to the
not · be collected through interview agricultural year 1989/90 Le.,
method were dropped in consultation Kharif 1989 and Rabi -1989 /90;
with the members · of the Advisory However, data on numbe.r and size of
Committee and the remaining were farms and other items refer to the
retained for inclusion in the final period of enumeration if not other~

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