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at Tehsil/ district headquarters for selection of households for detailed interviews.
After getting identification of selected households by the CMT, the enumerators
-weni
again to the concerned areas to collect information through face-to-face
in'ierviews with the heads of households. This information was recorded on Form-2
(households operating agricultural land) or Form-3 (households not operating
agricultural land).

In unsettled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Punjab provinces, the whole of
Balochistan province,Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu &Kashmir, where a single-
stage sample design was adopted, listing (filling of Form-1) and enumeration work
(filli-ng of Form-2 i Form-3) was done side-by-side, because all the households in
selected Mouzas/ villages /Killies / Basties were enumerated. However, in all the
selected urban blocks located anywhere in the couniry, every fifth household was
enumerated in addition to all the households having land or livestock.

The requisite informaiion in the questionnaire for census purposes was collected
through direct interview with the head of the selected household or, in case of his
absence, with a very close associate of the head of the selected household.

During the course of listing and enumetation, each enumerator was required to fill-in
and riail a pre-addressed weekly progress.report card (Form-4) to the Agricultural
Census Organization, stating the progress of work and problems, if any, faced by
him. After completion of ali the work in assigned Mouza(s), the enumerator was
required to put all the documents back in the census kitbag(s) and deposit the same
at Tehsil headquarters. The documents were then checked for completeness and
were gathered at the district level from where ihese were despatched to the
Agricul-tural Census Organization, Lahore by the CMT or district administration.

To maintain reasonable quality in the census results, a deiailed supervisory program
vuas also planned to supervise the countrywide census field operations io be
completed within a short span of six to eight weeks. For this purpose, in addltion to
the supervision by CMTs and district managemeni, Mobile Teams of ACO officers
remained in the fiet4 notn during training and census enumeration periods. Each
team was assigned a few contiguous districts for overall supervision. Special
emphasis was glven to the superv'rsion program for the districts where difficuities in
ihe census operations were pariicularly anticipated for timely and satisfactory
cornpletion. ln big cities where field staff of ihe FBS lvas used for enumeration' the
supervision was done by their in-charge officers.

The number of provincial officers / supervisors and enumerators who pariicipateci in
the Agricultural Census 2010 is gi'ien below:

PROVINGIAL OFFIEERS AND STAFF ENGAGED IN FIELD GFER"&TION
-- I- officers / f'-T-;;=
l--sr*ft
Administrative unit i supervisors -l-Egg'nslglo1g-i-
- I 165 71 06 ---- i
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. Pakistan
Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa 249 i5i3 i762
Punjab 474 3584 4058

Sindh 275 ifr27 fi42
gB2 1149
Balochistan 167

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