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method employed at the first stage was repeated at Patwar Circle level for
seEregating the certainty Mouzas and also for the selection of the non-certainly
Mouzas. Like the Patwar Circles with small probability of selection;. the Mouzas with
small probabilities were merged together by. applr;ng the principle mentioned in the
first stage and treated as one Mouza for sampling pu.rposes. However, only two
Mouzas from one Patwar Circle were selected whether the selected Mouza was
certainty or non-certainty. In the case where only one Mouza was found in a patwar
Circle, the same.Mouza was selected with probability 1. A list of selected Mouzas
and systematically selected urban blocks (without any weight) was prepared
carefully at the district level for further use.

Sub Stage: Sector Selection for Big Mouzas Only

According to the list.of selected Mouzas, all Mouzas with 900 or more households
were divided into sectors as described below:

During the field operation, listing and enumeration of so many households was
expected to overburden the enumerators. Therefore, these selected Mouzas were
termed as big Mouzas and a sub-stage of sector selection was introduced. Big
Mouzas were divided into convenient number of sectors, each having approximately
300 - 500 households. The number of.households in a sector was treated as the
measure of size to work out the probability of selection of that sector which was
subsequently incorporated in the probabitiiy of selection of that big Mouza and
'each
accordingly used for working out the census estimates. One sector from big
Mouza was selected with equal probability.The process of selecting a sector from big
Mouzas could be treated as anotherstage in multistage sampling. For big Mouzas, a
selected sector was treated as afull-fledged Mouza for settled areas and a full.
fledged village I Ktlli I Basti for unsettled areas of the country.

Third Stage: Selection of Clusters of Households

A systematic selection of clusters of approximately 30 households, was made from
list of households (Form-1) prepared by the enumerators during field operation. The
number of clusters to be selected, with a minimum of two from each Mouza, was
determined with regard to raising factor of the Mouza and the pre-fixed overall
raising factor at cluster level for a particular Mouza. The limit of overall raising factor
was fixed at 25 for all the rural settled areas. The ultimate sample of households
selected for the census was as follows:
i. The households in the selected clusters at final stage of selection.

ii. In selected urban blocks, every fifth household.
iii. All the households located in the selected villages / Basties / Killies of
unsettled areas, including the whole of Giigit Baltistan.

iv. All households located in selected Mouzas of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and
settled areas of Balochistan.
v. The households located in the selected Mouzas/ urban blocks designated as
Mouza Certainty Holdings.

vi, The households iocated anywhere In the country designated as Nationa!
Certainty Holdings.

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