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This list excluded purely forest respe_ct of the mam items under
mouzas and those urban mouzas study.
which were declared urban or
formed part of adjoining urban First of all each mouza was
ward(s). given a measure of size which is the
geometric mean of its cultivated area
iii) A GOmplete list of urban blocks. as per 1996-97 revenue record and
its - number of households as per
iv) A list -of households in selected 1998 Population Census. This
mouzas · showing total area measure of size helped to arrive at
rented-in and area owned the mouza probability of selection
constituting their farm holding was which was separately worked · out
,prepared from selected mouzas. and was proportional to its measure -
With the help of this list, of size in the sub-division multiplied
households farming 25 acres or by the number of patwar circles to
more as area owned and I or area be · selected there from. Then, each
rented-in were segregated and patwar_ circle was assigned a
treated as Mouza Certainty ~- probability by addition of the
Holdings (MCH). probability of selection of its mouzas.
The patwar circles falling _ in various
v) A list of households with 25 or . kanungo circles were arranged by
more cattle and I or buffaloes; 25 their · cultivated area within the
or more camels; 50 or more sheep respective kanungo circles. The
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and / or goats was prepared from patwar circles getting a probability
the sampled mouzas. These more than 0.890 · were selected with
livestock rearing households were certainty and sifted out from the list.
also treated as Mouza Certainty The patwar circles having probability -
Holdings (MCH). less than 0.020 were merged with the
immediately above non-certainty,
The . selection procedure non-merged patwar circles of the
adopted for various sampling stages same kanungo circle such that after
is given below :- merger the collective probability of
merged patwar circles becomes
FIRST STAGE; Selection of Patwar greater than 0.019 and were retained
Circles: . in the _ list as a single unit with their ·
_ collective probability.
The number of patwar circles to
be selected from each sub~division The non~certainty patwar·circles
was determined -keeping in view the were re-assigned a probability by
number of enumerators which could repeating - ·_ the · above mentioned
: be made available, effectively_ trai-ned · process. A moving cumulative ..
and· properly . · s-upervised, besides probability wa·s worked out and shown
inh~rent _ variance of the population in against each patwar circle in a sub-
-. division. For a sub-divisfori to be

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