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used in the last census. Some useful
Fa* ii Area and Fragmentation
improvements however were made,
Part iil Land Use e.g. the enlargement of the list of fruit
and non-fruit trees, crops, agricultural
Part iv lrrigation machinery and the use of manures,
fertilizers and insecticides. lnquiries in
Part v Fruit Trees and Area Under iivestock section were made more
. Orchards meaningful. Separate provision was

made for pur"ehase of livestock,
Pari vi Non-Fruit Trees
fertilizers and seed in the section on
Part rrii Crops investment far agricultural purposes.
A new cclunrn was added between
Part viii Use of . Manures, matriculate and primary education to
Fertilizers and Insecticides accommodate middle pass househcld
on Crops members, etc.
Part ix Use of Agricultural Although the arrangement and

Machines and Ernployment words of the questicns were very
of Casuai Labour
carefully chosen, the enumerators
were by no means restricted to the
Part x l-ivestock
use of questions as worded in the
Part xi Outstanding Debt and questionnaire. As a matter of tact,
lnvestment for Agricultural most of the questions were listed
Purposes in the questionnaire as items of
information and their explanation
Part xii Household Members and provided in the Enumerator's
Type of Hauses Instruction Manual. Experience had
shown that respondents mast cften
Part xiii Educationa! Level of apt to give eluding, evasive or
Household Members, complicated answers to simPle
Farnily Workers and questions and therefore the
Permanent Farm Labour enumerator was implicitly compelled

to ask the qr.restions more than once in
Par-i xiv Sources of tncarne
different forms to obtain the requisite
infarmatior':. Ta ecpe with the situation,
Th*re were 123 main items in a raiher detaiied instruction manual
the questionnaire with over six was provided to the enu!'nerators. An
hitr:cireC sub-items concerni*g the extensive iraining made ihe
mai* iiems. ?he qe.lestiar:*"laire us*d in enurneratcrs f*liy conversant with the
ihis census contained almast a!3 th* basic idea of every item included in the
Et*cr-s inciud*d i* the questi*:':r:air* census questic*:=a!re and equipned

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