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Part IX Livestock the requisite information. To cope
with the situation, a rather
Part X Household Members , Type/ detailed instruction m~nual was
Ownership. Status of provided to the enumerators. An ex-
Houses and Indebtedness tensive training made the enumera-
tors fully conversant with the
Part XI Economic Activities and basic idea of every item included
Permanent Hired in the census questionnaire and
Agricultural Workers equipped him to frame and re-frame
suitable questions for eliciting
Part XII Educational Level and the requisite information. ·
Sources of Income
The questions were arranged in
In all, there were 112 main a logical sequence to facilitate
items besides number of sub-items. the enumeration work and important
totals we~e repeated at the
The questionnaire used in 1990 relevant places so that enumerators
census contained almost all the could readily apply some of the
items included in the questionnaire built-in checks . The format of, the
used in the last Census of Agricul- questionnair~ was made to suit the
ture besides a few new items i.e., data processing requirements arid it
reasons for renting out owned land was fully pre-coded.
to others, area irrigated through
perennial and non-perennial canals, List of torms Used in the Field
enlarged list of fruits, . crops and
type of fertilizers, area sown more Form-.1 List of Households prepared
than once, use of agricultural for all the selected mouzas,
machines by ownership, investment villages and urban wards.·
made on improvement of water
courses, expenditures on ferti- Form-2 Census Questionnair~ com-
lizers, .seed and insecticides, pleted only for selected
marriages and other customs, type households reporting owned
and ownership status of houses, and/or rented-in land.
educational level of house-hold
members, subsidiary sources of Form-3 Brief Cehsus Question-riaire
income of farming household and (used in Punjab, Sindh &
classification of basic sources of settled areas of NWF
income of a household into Provinces only) completed
agricultuie and non-agriculture . for selected households
reporting no land.
Al though the arrangement and
words of the questions were very Form-4 Weekly Progress Report in
carefully chosen, the enumerators the form .. of a prepaid
were by no means restricted to the postage card, completed and
use of questions as worded in the posted by each enumerator to
questionnaire. As a matter of fact, Census Organization Head-
most of the questions were listed quarters every week
in the questionnaire as items of throughout the census
information and their explanation enumeration.
provided in · the Enumerator's In:..
struction Manual. E~peri~nce had Form-5 Completion Report prepared
shown that respondents were most after enumeration in each
often apt to give evasive or long sample ~ouza/village/tirban
answers to simple questions and the ward by concerned enumera-
enumerator was obliged to ask the tors by copying data on im-
questions more than once in dif- portant items from Form 2/3
ferent forms before he could obtain of , all the enumerated

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