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decided to cover settled as well as did not have access to the
unsettled areas of the country. census household_ lists - of
selected sectors or any
The sample design , methodology other document .
and scope of the Post Enumeration
Survey is giVeri below : Step 5 - Enumerators wer e directed to
re-list all households in
Step 1 Half of the sub-d.ivisions the selected sectors and
were selected systemati- number all the houses {ound
cally for Post Enumeration without census marking. At
Survey . the same time, the selected
households were reinter-
Step 2 A two stag~ sample was viewed tp obtain data ·on key
selected -from each selected items of the eensus~
sub- division for Post
Enumeration Survey . Nor- Step 6 The re-listing in selected
mally , 4 to 5 mouzas/vil- sectors and re-enumeration
/
lages i n the rural areas of selected households was
and one b lock in the urban completed within two weeks
area were selected sys- time .
tematically from each
selected sub-division . Step 7 · The" data obtained during the
depending upon size of the census and the Post Enumera-
sub-division in terms of- tion Survey were matcQed and
the number of sample the differences in the list-
mouzas/villages/ blocks in ing and variation · in
that sub-di vision. At the responses were reconciled l9y
first stage 570 mouias/vil- another team of inves-
lages/blobks were selected . tigators so as to -identify
the sources and nature of
Step 3 Two types of samples were errors, at individual
selected at the second respondents level.
stage . For coverage check,
each selected · mouza was· Step 8 The data collected in the
divided into roughly equal main census was compared
sectors of about 100 with the 'theck data obtained
households each _with the through PES after recon-
he'lp · of mouza sketch map, ciliation and . numerical es-
and one of those sectors timates arrived at with
was .selected with probabi- regard to under or over
lity proportional to the enumer·ation .
number of households in a
sector . Similarly, 10 to 15 The ·firidings of the Post
households from those Enumeration survey are summarized
-enumerated in the census in below:
each of the PES ouzas/
villages/blocks were 1) All mouzas/villages/ -_· bl-ocks
randomly selected for re- selected for census-· had been
~numeration to have an idea correctly -identified and no
about response variation . mouza/village/block was _ to-
tally _ omitted - from census
Step 4 _ Specially - trained · Census enumeration .
0£f icials 'were deputed for
enumeration work and were 2) The census estimates of the
posted at stations other · number of households at country
than those where they had. level were ·subject to _ gross
worked in the census . They under listing of 3.8% .

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