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CENSUS ORGANIZATION realities. The decision to carry out
sample census was based mainly on
The provisions of the Census
Act implicitly · provide for· · the the following considerations :-
establishment of an Agricultural a) The accuracy of census results
Census Organizatfon for fulfillment of mainly depended upon the quality
the objectives outlined in the Act. The of enumeration which in turn
same 1s currently working as an largely rested with the adequacy of
attached department of Statistics training and effectiveness of
Division, Ministry · of Finance, supervision of enumerators. In
Economic Affairs and -Statistics, . and case of complete census,
is based at Lahore. thousands and thousands of
census master trainers and an
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
army of enumerators was required.

The census taking exercise was The availability, training and
guided by a think tank in the form of -supervision of such a large staff
an Advisory Committee. This and achieving the required
committee comprises of about so·· standards appeared difficult and a

official and non-official members distant as well as. unapproachable
drawn from the concerned Federal reality. Similar problems were also
and Provincial Government envisioned for all . the data
Departments, Universities, Research processing stages.
Institutes · and Agricultural
Development Bank, while non:.official b) In case of a complete census it
. members from the progressive would not have been feasible to
farmers. The proposals on census publish data below the level . of a
doctrine as well as the strategy were district due to heavy expenditure
placed before the Advisory on tabulation and printing, and also
Committee for its in depth review and because of low demand for data at
incorporating · omissions and lower level of administration. On
deleticns, if any. The advice of the the other hand for generating
members of the Advisory Committee tabulations at district level a
was also . sought concerning the sample census could provide
information to be collected and also · almost equally good results and
on the tabulation plan through which that too at a much lesser cost.
the census data were to be presented
This census covered whole of
as the committee also represented the country, i.e. · NWFP (including
our ultimate data users.
Provincially and Federally

TYPE & GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE Administered Tribal Areas /
Agencies), Punjab (including

The Agricultural Census 2000 Islamabad district), Sindh and
was sample · based. The design Balochistan · provinces. The
however varied for different regions of geographic coverage . was also
the country in view of the ground extended to Northern Areas and Azad

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