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households was also recorded. The dictions.
numbers put on the houses were
marked on the sketch map showing · Post Enumeration survey (PES)
the lecation of each household with
reference to important landmarks . Census taki'ng is a gigantic .
After completing the household list operation. Inspite of best effor ts,
£or the mouzas assigned to him~ the subject to financial and ad-
enumerator returned to the respec- ministrative limitations, some er-
tive tehsil heaqquarters for get- rors and shortcomings in the census
ting · the .sample of households results are always exJ?ected. The
selected by the CMT. The CMT census officials are themselves
scrut{nizeq the list s , seleqted the anxious to knew the extent, nature
sampl• and markecl the sel~cted and possible ·causes of such errors
househe>-lds on the list givin~ th@m. to find out the efficacy of the
a separate serial nu:m)ber . The vari9us arrangements made. Inf ormed
enumerator then returned to -his as- users of the census data are also
signed area an~ · ct-id the enumeration interested in the quality of c e nsus
of ·the sele~ted households. In ur- data.
ban areas, Balochistan province and
other ar@as wpere a single stage The quality of data from a
sample was adopted, listirig and sample census depends on the e xtent
enurnerat:ion weirk was done side by -0f sampling errors and non~samp l ing
side, since a-11 the h0useholds in errors present in the results . Sam-
selec~ed mocizas/kiilies/waids were pling errors can be estimated from
to be enumerated. . the data of the.census and have ac-
cordingly been worked out for im-
The information for the pur- portant i terns included in the cen-
pose of census was collected sus. The incidence of non-sampling
th,rough direct interview . with ·the ·. error..s can· be identified only
respondents . ;- through an independent checking of
the census work immediately fo l low-
At the end of the enumeration, ing the census enumeration.
a Completion Report for each mouza
~ontaining household-wis~ important Ideally, a Post Enumeration
information was prepared by the Survey should be based on physical
enumerator- from the filled-in ques- verification of certain important
tionnaires. Dur:.ing the course of items of the census. Due to f i nan-
listing and ---enuineration, each 1cial limitations it was not pos-
enumerator was required to fill in . sible to undertake such an expen-
and mail a pre-addressed weekly sive exercise . . _Re-interviewing of
progress card to the census head- the. respondents by a different set
quarters stating the progress of of enumerators of a higher caliber
work and problem~, if any, ~faced by was, ~fuer,efore, undertaken.
him. After · completion of all the
work in a mouza, the enumerator was The Post Enumeration Survey ,
to put all the documents back in therefore, emphasized mainly on the
the census kit bags and return them question of completeness of listing
to the CMT in the sub-division. The and enumeration of households
documents were checked for com- (coverage check) which could be
pleteness - and despatched to the done in a completely objective man-
headquarters by the CMT. ner . The area of the hol@ings was
also chec~,ed (-response _variation)
The supervisors conducted the but complete . - obj ecti vi ty in the
enumer-ation 0f National Certainty method of getting correct acreage
Holdings iri the non-select~~ mouzas corild not be introduced. In order
and supervised the work of enumera- ,-. to get meaningful results from the
tors within their respective juris- · · Post Enumeration Survey, · it was
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