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launched with a press conference of
In ~rder to obtain census the Minister for Fina-nee and
results of reasonable quality., Economic Affairs shortly before the
detailed supervisory programme was start of training of Census Enume-
planned with timely assistance ex- rators. Since the census was based
tended by the FBS in the shape of on sample enumeration and the
·vehicles and field staff. A enumeration work was to confine to
skeleton .of supervisory arrange- the selected villages, the limited
ments was created by mobilizing ad- but well-thought of publicity cam-
ditional resources to supervise the paign was · undertaken to seek
country-wide census operations to cooperation of the farming com-
be completed within a short span -0f munity in general and target
six to eight weeks. The mobile population in particular .
teams of ACO officers remained in
the field both during training and Large size posters portraying
census · enumeration. For this · pur- importance of the Census for na-
pose one team consisting of 2 of- tion,31·,y development programme were
fice r s _with a vehicle was assigned displayed at prominent places.
3 to 5 districts for overall super- Handouts were issued t~ the
vision in addition to Census Offi- newspapers at appropriate junc-
cials deputed to respective sub-- tures. All the members of District
divisions. However, in big cities and Tehsil Councils, Chairmen of
where field staff. of thi{ FBS . was Union Committees and Councilors of
used for enumeration the supervi- the selected villages were . ad-
sion was made by their incharge of- dressed on the issue. Meetings were
ficers. held with the district administra-
tion to finalize the census ar-
The number of provincial rangements and to _ review progress
staff used in the census operation _of the work during enumeration. In
is given in the fo~lowing table. those meetings represe:ntati v.es of
the Press Information Department
FIELD STAFF ENGAGED IN were also invited which proved to
1990 AGRICULTURAL CENSUS· be very conducive for local
publicity.
IDist.rict !Sub- I Tehsi l Super-jEnume-
Province !Census jDivisionaljCensus visorsjrators Enumeration Pr.-ocedure
I Officers !Census · !Officers I
I Officers I I
On the . last day of the train-
Pakistan 94 223 307 1597 5690 ing, kit bags containing adequate
supply of documents and stationery
N\.IFP 27 33 33. 272 1159
Punjab 33 95 95 891 2989 were handed over to the enumerators
Sindh 14 47 76 292 825 and sU~ervisors. Sufficient supply
Balochistan 20 48 103 142 717 of forms and other documents was
kapt at the training centres to
·
All the staff members borrowed meet · any short fall.
from . the provincial governments
were paid a suitable honorarium for On conclusion of the training,
the census work. each enumerator proceeded to the
assigned, sample mouza and prepared
Publicity a sketc-h map of the mouza · showing
location of houses and important
The media including radio an~ laritlmarks. He then · numbered the
natfonal and regi6nal newspaper~ residentia~ houses and recorded
were mobilized to pr0ject the _ im- those along with the names of the
portance of the Census and its ob- head of househo,lds ·. in the _ listing
jectives. The programme was ~heet. Areµ owned and area taken on
rent/share cropping basis by

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