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factors affecting the structure of figures of cultivated area
agriculture are not of · much compared with that of the census.
significance in the census but it is However, in case of Punjab and
the relationship between various . NWFP, though the term is
factors which is of paramount similarly defined yet laborious
importance. Therefore, the methods are prescribed for its
aggregative type of current data extraction. The current statistics
on land and crops can best be of land use and crops are
had from the existing elaborate obtained from 'Jinswars' of
system of current statistics. revenue department, while the
census estimates. are based on
5. There are some valid reasons for the responses of a sample of
. the census figures being different farmers on · recall methodology.
from current agricultural Therefore, as the current
statistics. It is partly because of statistics may be subjected to
conceptual differences and partly errors of recording and
on account of differences in data compilation, the census results
collection and compilation · may be subjected to • sampling
procedures. For example, and non-sampling errors and thus
cultivated area is comprised of . theoretically may not be the
"net sown" and "current fallow". same.
The "net sown" is uniformly
defined both in the census as 6. Statistics on livestock are
well as the current statistics. The available from decennial
"current fallow" is differently Censuses of Agriculture as well
defined for the ·current statistics as Livestock Censuses. All these
of Sindh and Balochistan censuses were scientifically
provinces as compared to that for planned and conducted by the
the agricultural census. sarre Organization (ACO).
However, the data · collected in
In agricultural census "current these censuses are not strictly
fallow" is defined as the area comparable, inter alia, due to the
which remained vacant during the use of different enumerating
year under reference but was agencies, i.e. Patwaris for
sown at least once during the · Agricultural Censuses and Stock
previous year. In case of current Assistants for Livestock
statistics of Sindh and Censuses, having personal bias
Balochistan, the vacant period towards their areas of interest.
extends up to two to three years. Besides, the sample designs
Consequently, in current statistics adopted in both of the
of these two provinces and thus assignments widely differ thus
also of the country , a part of culminating at the · varied
culturable waste gets included in estimates. In addition to the
current fallow resulting in inflated above, another maJor factor

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