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· Part xii Household Members and apt to give eluding, evasive or
Type of Houses · complicated answers to simple
questions and therefore the
Part xiii · Educational Level of enumerator was implicitly compelled
Household Members, . to ask the questions more than once
Family Workers and · in different forms to obtain the
Permanent Farm Labour requisite information. To cope with the
situation, a rather detailed instruction
Part xiv Sources of Income manual was provided to the

enumerators. An · extensive training
There were 123 main items in made the enumerators fully
the questionnaire with over six conversant with the basic idea of
hundred sub-items concerning the every item included in the census
main items. The questionnaire used questionnaire and equipped him to
in this census · contained almost frame and re-franie suitable
all the items included in the questions for eliciting the requisite
questionnaire used in the last census. information. /
Some useful improvements however
were made, e.g. the enlargement of The questions were arranged in
the list of fruit and non-fruit trees a logical sequence to · facilitate the
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crops, agricultural machinery and the enumeration work and important
use of manures, fertilizers and totals were repeated at the relevant
insecticides. Inquiries in livestock places so that en!-Jmerators could
section were made more meaningful. readily apply some of the built-in
Separate provision was made for check(s). The format of the .
purchase of livestock, fertilizers and questionnaire was made to suit the
seed in the section on investment for data processing requirements. To
agricultural purposes. A new column further facilitate data processing the
was added between matriculate and questionnaire was fully pre-coded. ·
primary education to accommodate
middle pass household members, etc. LIST OF FORMS USED

Althougl:l the arrangement and Form-1 To prepare the list of all the .
words of the questions were very households located in the
carefully chosen, the ,,, enumerators selected mouzas, villages

were by no means restricted to the and urban blocks.
use of questions as worded in the
questionnaire. As a matter of fact, Form-2 Main census questionnaire ·
most of the questions were listed in ( of eight pa_ges) to pe filled-'
the questionnaire as items of in only for' the selectec;i
information and their explanation households reporting owned
provided in the Enumerator's and l or rented-in land.
Instruction Manual·. Experience had
shown that respondents most often

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