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households for the ·· forms and the concepts involved, at
compilation of Preli- their respe~tive sub-divi~ional
minary Report. headquarters., . by Census Master
Trainers (CMTs). The training
Form-6 National Certainty centres at district headquarters
Holdings Form used for were inaugurated by the concerned
recording full address Deputy · Commissioners and at other
and particulars of the places by the respective Assistant
NCH in case the same Commissioners. The five days
could not be enumerated training for enumerators and
on any account . . supervisors included first three
days class room lect~res ending in
Field Organization and Training written test, fourth day in the
field doing actual work followed by
The Patwaris and Tapedars of revision and review of the entire
the provincial revenue departments training on the fifth day. In
were designated · as the census addition to the theoretical and
enumerators and Kanungoes/Super- practical training, the enumerators
vising Tapedars we~e engaged as were required to fill in t~o census
their immediate supervisors. The questionnaires ind,ependently during
Kanungoes/Supervising Tapadars were the listing oper~tions and show
also made responsible for the th~m to the CMT for checking. The
enumeration of National Certainty entimerators were giveh the go ahead
Holdings located outside the sample signal · for enumeration only after
mouzas. In big urban areas includ- the CMT was satisfied ·with their
ing Peshawar, Islamabad, .Rawal- training.
pindi, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Lahore,
Faisalabad, Jpang, Multan, Bahawal- At the tehsil and sub-division
pur, Sukkur, Hyderabad and Karachi levels, concerned Tehsildars and
where requisite number of revenue· Assistant Commissioners were made
staff was not available, the field responsible f-or the census opera-
staff of the Federal Bureau of tions within ·their jurisdictions.
Statistics was employed to work un- Additional Deputy Commissioners
der their own supervisory staff were designated as District Census
designated for the purpose. The Officers to be o~erall incharges of
enumerators and supervisors were the census within their jurisdic-
normally required to work within tions. Before the start of the cen-
their respective jurisdictions. The sus field operation, meetings were
choice~ of revenue staff was made held in ·every district to brief the
after testing several other concerned officers on the census
agencies like the School Teachers, methodology and schedule of work
Agricultural Field Assistants a·nd etc. Arrangemenbs for launching the
Stock Assistants. It was observed census field operation were also
that•the revenue s~aff was more ef- reviewed.
fective in getting information from
rural population due to their pivo- One or more CMTs were placed at
tal position in the village life. each suS-divisional headquarters
Besides they were · already conver- according to work load for the
sant with the ag~ictilturai· statis- duration of field operations t6
tics terminology · and were ac- train the enumerators, supervise
quainted with mouza (sampling the enumeration work, select within
unit) boundaries. mouza sample and to provide techni-
cal ~ guidance to the l"ocal offi-
The enumerators and their im- cials. He was also required to ar-
mediate supervisors were inten- range the · des.patch. of completed
sively trained in batches of 20 or documents to the provi ncial census
less in census methodology, census office concerned .

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