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nearly 3n households each was r.umber of farms/households report-
· selected with equal probability ing any activity.
from all the selected mouzns for
detailed inf o·rmation at the third Observations and Conclusions
stage.
2) The i:...ca.lning of census
The census questionnaire- u'sed enumerators should be undertaken
in the last census was enla,_·ged by directly by the Agricultural
including · additional i ten~; sug- Census Organi-zation. Ideally the
gested by various organizations and training session should not have
dropping from it some of the items more than . 2 o trainees. The
on which meaningful data could not trainees should be given class
be collected during the last cen- room lectures and -some practical
sus. training in the field.

In 65 rural mouzas and 11 ur- b) Four-days t:r,aining to the
ban blocks, _19, 079 households were enumerators was founc;l to be in-
listed showing the size of farm of sufficient and needed· to be in-
each household. In all, 6,432 creased to five days.
households were selected for
enumeration. c) It was felt necessary that a
senior census officer must vi sit
Patwaris of the respective each training centie at least
mouzas/blocks were designated as once to review the important
enumerators. They were trained for instructions with the enumerators
four days at their respective sub- and to clarify issues of local
divisions. Kanungoes of the nature · creeping up during the
. respective areas worked as their course of training .
immediate supervisors. The
selection of ievenue officials for · d) The Census Training Assistants
the purpose of enumeration was made depute_d to supervise the . -field
in view of the previous experience. operations were generally suc-
The Census Training kssistants cessful in implementing the in-
(CTAs) of the Census Organization structions for sub-sampling of
were trained as Master Trainers and households from the household
were deputed to different test lists prepared by the enumerators
areas. They imparted training to in the sample mouzas.
the enumerators and their immediate
supervisors, selected the sample of e) While preparing household lists,
households fiom lists of households information on area operated and
prepared in selected mouzas/blocks, number of livestock should also
supervised the field operations and be collected· for stratification
collected the filled in documents before selection.
for their despatch to · the Census
Headquarters. f) Detailed interview with a
• household possessing land would
The filled in questionnaires take almosi an hour while 10 to
were subjected to manual editing to 15· minutes would be required for
remove apparent inconsistencies. a ho~~ehold without land.
The. data were key pundhed for
processing on electronic computer. . g) The house·holds selected through
The pre-final tabulations were sub- stratified sampling - techniques
jected to quality control to ward were scattered all over the
off the possibility of any process- - mouzas which required more
ing error in the census data. The traveling · time by , the
final tables mostly contained the enumerators. On the other hand,
aggregates of various items and the the 'households selected through

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