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the csurse of studying various of these two provinces and thus
facters affecting the structure of also of the coun'ry , a Part of
agrieulture are not of much culturable waste gets included
significance in the census but it is in current fallow resulting in
the reiationship between various inflated figures o. cultivated area
factors which is of Paramount compared with that of the census.
importance. Therefore, the However, in case of Punjab and
aggregative type of current data NWFP, though the term is
on land and crops can best be similarly defined yet laborious
had from the existing elaborate methods are prescribed for its
system of current statistics. extraction. The current statistics
of land use and crops are
tr There are sorne valid reasons for obtained from 'Jinswar,' of
the census figures being different revenue department, while the
from current agricultural statistics. census estimates are based on
It is partly because of conceptual the responses of a sample of
differences and partly on account farmers on recall methodology.
of differences in data collection Therefore, as the current statistics
and compilation procedures. For may be subjected to errors of
example, cultivated area is recording and compilation, the
comprised of ''net sown" and census results may be subjected
"current fallow". The "net sown" is to sampling and non-samPling
pniformly defined both in the errors and thus theoretically maY
census as well as the current not be the same
statistics. The "current fallow" is
differently defined for the Statistics on livestock are
current statistics of Sindh avaitable from decennial Censuse
and Balochistan provinces as of Agriculture as well as . "ivestock
compared to that for the Censuses. All these censuses
agricultural census. were seientifically planned and
conducted by the same Organi-
In agricultural census "current zation (ACO). However, the data
fallow" is defined as the aEea collected in these censuses are
which remained vacant during the not strictly comparable, inter
year under reference but w&s alia, due to the use of different
$ov/ft at least Gnce during the enumerating agencies, i.e. Pahvaris
previous year. ln eaee of eurrent for Agricultural Censuses and
statisti*s of $lnuh and Stock Assistants for tivestock
Baleohistan, the vacant per!*d Censuses, having persana! bias
*xtends *p t* tvvo to thn*e years. towarcis their are*s af inter*st.
e*ns*quei"ttEy, in current siatisties Fesides, the samBle designs
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