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CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES AND OTHER FORMS

The main questionnaire from the previous census (Form-2) was sent to different data
users / stakeholders / researchers / planners etc.,for suggesting suitable
improvements in view of their future data requirements. ln the light of their
suggestions, a comprehensive draft questionnaire was prepared and presented to
the Advisory Committee for its consideration. The questionnaire was finalized on the
basis of recommendations of the Advisory Committee and was used in the
Agricultural Census 2010.

The questionnaire used in the census had two versions. The main questionnaire
(Form-2) was spread over 8 pages and was meant for households reporting owned
and I or rented-in land. For landless households, a short questionnaire (Form-3)
which contained all the questions of Form-2, except those relating to land and crops,
was used. A copy of Form-2 is given inAppendix-ll. The questionnaires were printed
in Urdu, except for Sindh province where the language used was Sindhi. The main
questionnaire (Form-2) had fourteen parts.

There were 102 main data items in the questionnaire with about 600 data codes
assigned to sub-questions concerninQ. the main items.The format of the
questionnaire was made to suit the data .processing requirements. To further
facilitate data processing, the questionnaire was fully pre-coded. The detail of forms
used in the census is as under:

Form-1: To prepare the list / frame of all the households located in the selected
Mouzas, villages and urban blocks.

Form-2: Main .census questionnaiie (8 pages) to be filled-in only forthe
selected households reporting owned and / or rented-in land for
agricultural purposes

Form-3:Brief census questionnaire (2 pages) to be filled-in for the selected
households not reporting any land.

Form-4:Weekly progress report in the form of a prepaid postage card to be
filled-in and posted by each enumerator to the Agricultural Census
Organization, Lahore every week throughout the census enumeration
period.

Form-6:National Certainty Holding (NCH) form was used for recording full
address and other particuiars of such household. lf the same NCH
could not be enumerated at its address, the new address was noted
on the same form for further contact to collect the data.

Form-7:ldentity Ticket to be filled-in by the enumerator for handing over to
nomads I gipsy / migratory people to avoid re-enumeration.

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