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compilation procedures. Cul- rors of recording and manual
tivated area is - composed of "Net compilation, the census results
Area Sown" and "Current Fallow". may , be subject to sampling and
Whereas the Net Area Sown is non-sampling errors. The data of
uniformly · defined both in the · current area statistics is
census as well as in the current extracted fro'm the revenue
statistics, the current fallow rec6~ds and census data is based
. is differently defined in the on recall methodology.
current statistics ,of Sindh and
Balochistan provinces. "Current t. The data on livestock population
Fallow" in the Agricultural Cen- becomes available from decennial
sus is defined as the · are_a which Census of Agriculture as well as
remained v~cant during the year ,from Livestock _Census. Both these
under reference but was sown at censuses are scientifically
least once during the previous planned and conducted by the same
year~ In case of current statis- Organization (ACO). However, the
tics of Sindh and Balochistan, data collected in the two
the vacant period extends to two censuses are not ~trictly
to three yeari. Consequently in comparable due to the use of
current statistics of these two _different . enumerating agencies,
provinces, a part of culturable i.e., Patwaris for Agricultural
waste is 'included in current Census and Stock Assistants for
fallow resulting in inflated Livestock census, having personal
figures of ~ultivated area com~ bias towards their areas of
pared with that of the census. interest. Major factor seems to
In case of Punjab and _NWFP be non-coverage of migratory
provinces, though the term is herds by the Patwaris ~ in the
similarly defined yet laborious Agricultural Cens~s whereas the
methods -are prescribed for its · Stock Assistants take due care
extraction. The revenue offi- for their enumeration in the
cials use short-cut methods and Livestock Census. The data from
the resultant figures -do not Agricultural Census are primarily
conform to the_ accepted defini- meant for studying relationship
tion. Moreover, the current between livestock population of
statistics of land use and crops different categories and size of
are obtained from tabulation of farms. For ·estimating livestock
'Jinswars' which represent 1-00% population and their products and
bi-annual inspection of all the for developing their growth
fields, while the ~ ·censu~ es- rates, data on livestock popula-
timates are based on the tion provided by the Livestock
responses of a sample of Census may be preferred over the
farmers. Whereas the current Agricultural Census data.
statistics may be subject to -er-

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