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division, province and national Vol.2: Provincial Reports consist of
levels presenting the census four parts, i.e. one for each
data were prepared. province. Each contains
tabulations at . province,
(8) Quality Control division and district levels In
acres for the local users.
Census data are always sacred,
therefore the quality had always Vol.3: Special Reports consist of
been an important concern in two reports, i.e. one each for
ACO. To meet this objective, Northern Areas and Azad
the census tabulations were Jammu & Kashmir. Each
thoroughly checked for quaiity. contains tabulations· at the
In this process all those errors district and overall levels ,n
were handled that could not acres for the local users.
be detected during editing or
might have crept in during QUALITY OF CENSUS DATA
coding, punching, verification,' ,
processing and tabulation. The Census taking is a gigantic
staff deputed for the purpose project of national importance ·.
was specially trained to check involving a great deal of sophistication
and pin point the in its planning, execution and
inconsistencies in the tables, processing. lnspite of best efforts to
detect inter-table differences ensure quality at each stage, some
and probe backward to identify margin of error is always possible.
the discrepancies. The same, if
In technical terms, the quality of
necessary, were corrected
the census data gathered through
after careful consideration at the
sample enumeration might had been
higher level.
affected by a number of lapses taking
place in the course . of all the stages
PUBLICATION OF CENSUS DATA
of conducting . the census as well as
processing the censu_s data.
The census data as mentioned
Therefore, all data estimates arrived
above have been tabulated at district,
at the basis of sample enumeration
division, province and national levels.
are destined to have errors as usual.
The tabulations thus prepared are
All such errors are classified into
published in the following reports :-
(1) sampling errors; and (2) non-
sampling errors. So, the important
Vol.1: All Pakistan Report contains
consideration would not be that the
tabulations at country and
estimates are error free but that of
province levels in hectares for
controlling the extent of error, both, in
the local as well as foreign
sampling and non-sampling errors.
users.
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