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This list excluded purely forest respect of the main 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 complete 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 / 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 / or buffaloes; 25 their cultivated area within the
or more camels; 50 or more sheep respective kanungo circles. The

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 trained process. A moving cumulative
and properly supervised, besides probability was worked out and shown
inherent variance of the population in against each patwar circle in a sub-
division. For a sub-division to be

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