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Form-3 Brief census questionnaire (sampled unit). boundaries. The
( of two pages ) to be filled-in Patwaris / Tapedars of the provincial
for the selected households revenue departments were
not reporting any land. designated as the census
enumerators, while the Kanungoes /
Form-4 Weekly progress report in the Supervising Tapedars were engaged
form of a pre-paid postage as their immediate supervisors. The
card to be filled-in and Kanungoes/ Supervising Tapedars
posted by · each enumerator were also made responsible for the
to the Census Organization enumeration of National Certainty
Head-quarter, Lahore every Holdings (NCH) located outside the .
week throughout the census sampled mouzas of their respective
enumeration period. jurisdictions. In big urban areas like
Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi,
Form-6 National Certainty Holdings Gujranwala, Sialkot, Lahore,
(NCH) · form used for Faisalabad, Jhang, Sargodha, Multan,
recording full address and ' , Bahawalpur, Sukkur, · Hyderabad and
other particulars of the NCH, Karachi the field staff of the Federal
in case the same could Bureau of Statistics was employed for
not be enumerated at his enumeration under their own
already noted address on supervisory staff designated for the
any account. purpose. In the unsettled areas,
however, the revenue staff being very
Form-7 Identity Ticket to be filled- scanty was substantially supported by
. p,•in · by an enumerator for. •~ · the Agricultural Field Assistants;
handing over to nomads to Stock Assistants, School Teachers
avoid re-enumeration. and Development Assistants for the
field operation. The enumerators
FIELD ORGANIZATION AND TRAINING and · supervisors · were normally
deputed to . work within their
As per decision of the Advisory respective jurisdictions, unless
Committee, selected staff of the otherwise compelled by the local
provincial revenue departments was . circumstances.
made . responsible to carry out the
census field operations in the settled At tehsil and sub-:-division levels,

areas of the country. This was based concerned Tehsildars and . Assistant
on the fact that revenue staff was Commissioners were designated as
more effective in getting information- Tehsil Census Officers and . Sub-
from rural · population due to their Divisional Census · Officers
pivotal pos·ition in rural life. in:, respectively and made responsible for
addition, the revenue staff was > ·the census operations to be carried
already conversant with the .. out within their respective
terminology on agricultural statistics jurisdictions. The Deputy
and well acquainted with mouza Cornrnissioners were designated as

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