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Organization's field oftices at
3) While some households were hyderabad, Peshawar and Quetta and
missed in the census, others Headquarters Offices at Lahore for
which did not exist, were respective areas of juri.sdiction.
listed. Some farmer~ mistak- On receipt of the documents in
ing the census ope~ation for these Offices, the work involved on
any inventory for distribution the following phases of processing
of land to the landless, exag- and tabulation of census data was
gerated and inflated the num- started one after the other with a
ber of households in a family. minimum possible time-lag.
Consequently, some families
which constituted single Document. Control
household got th@mselves
listed as multiple households. A control .section , was estab-
The gross over_· listing of lished in each off ice to .· collect
households amortnted to 0.3%. and receive documents from the
field, check them for complete in-
4) Considering under and over ventory, keep in safe custody and
listing of households to- . issue tbem for various data proces-
gether, there was net under- sing operations~ For this purpose,
1 ist ing of 3.5%. However, it was first ensured that documents
agricultural households were from all the selected mouzas, vil-
subjected to net under-listing · 1ages and urban wards were re-
to the extent of 1.8%. ceived. The forms were then actual-
ly counted and · matched with the
5) Owned'area, operated area and number · recorded on the concerned
cultiVated area were . under sample selection forms and listing
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reported in the census upto sheets. All cases of over and under
the extent of 3. 2%, 2. 7% and reporting were thoroughly investi~
2.0% respectively. gated and reconciled. The completed
documents of each ouza/village/ward
6) On the livestock side, cattle were · placed in separate properly
and buffaloes were under re- l~beled kit bags showing the iden-
ported to the extent· of 2 .4% tification of area and the inven-
and 1. 8% respectively. Simi- tory of the documents contained
larly; goats were under repor- therein. The kit · bags, in turn,
ted. upto . the . extent of 2 .1% were placed in different shelves on
whereas, the sheep were over which tehsil/taluka . codes were
reported to the extent of marked. This arrangement facilita- ~
- 0. 5%. ted the easy, retrieval of docu-
ments. The Control Section issued
Processing and Tabulation documents for coding, editing, data
entry and other operations involved
The censu~ data were processed in ·data processing and kept a
on electronic computers at meticulous record of the movement
Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, of all census documents through,
Peshawar .and Quetta Computer various stages of processing.
Centres of Federal Bureau of
Statistics. As mentioned earlier, Coding
the enumerators after completing
the work assigned to them . placed , The ce~sus questionnaire was .
all the census documents in their fully precod·ed but the area code
iit ba~~·and returned them to the · was ins.erted manually. Besides, in
tehsil/taluka headquarters where case of households operating
these were checke_d by the . Census jointly, the · number of partners
Master Trainers and forwarded to were marked, after counting the,
the · Agricultural Census partners list on the co·ncerned\

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