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culminating at the varied not, however, be presumed that
estimates. In addition to the all the national and provincial
above, another major factor totals are · subjected to a
seems to be the non-coverage substantial rounding effect. As
of migratory herds by the in the large aggregates, vide the
Patwaris in · Agricultural law of inertia of large numbers,
Censuses whereas the Stock such effects cancel out each
Assistants take due care for other thus curtailing rounding
lheir enumeration in u, estock effect at the national or
Censuses. It may be noted that provincial levels to a minimum.
the data from Agricultural
Census are primarily meant for
studying relationships between .

livestock population of different
categories and· sizes of farms.
Therefore, for studying ..:. -
livestock population, their
products and for developing
their growth r~tes, . data
provided by Livestock Census
may be preferred over the
Agricultural Census data.

7. In some cases, the figures in a
row or a column may not add up
exactly to their respective row ar
column total. These differences
are due to rounding which was
unavoidable in view of the fact
that each area figure was
collected in terms of acres and
kanals and converted into acres
and hectares. Further, each ·
data item was multiplied with its
raising factor worked out upto
three · places of decimal. The
size of rounding effect in a total
normally depends upon the
number of independently
worked out components
included therein. Consequently,
the rounding effect will be larger
in a national or provincial total
than in a district total. It should

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