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NATIONAL CERTAINTY HOLDINGS:

During the field operation, the NCHs lying within the boundaries of the selected
Mouzas/ villages / Killies / Basties were enumerated by the deputed enumerators.
However, the responsibility to fill out the forms for the NCHs in the non-selected
Mouzas/ villages / Killies / Basties fell on the immediate supervisors / Kanungos /
supervising Tapedars, in addition to the supervision of the enumerator's work
progress within their respective jurisdiction.

PUBLICITY
A well-planned media campaign is a prerequisite for any large statistical enterprise in
order to raise a huge country level awareness and elicit the cooperation of the
general public. However, due to a shortage of funds, the publicity campaign wasof a
iimited level, lt was launched in local as well as national newspapers to highlight the
importance of the census and its objectives. Similarly, briefs on census and
handouts were issued to the newspapers at appropriate junctures during the district
meetings and census field operation for public awareness.

The census was sample-based and the enumeration work was confined to the
selected Mouzas/ villages / urban blocks and within a Mouza fo selected households'
Therefore, most of the District Coun-cil Nazims, members of the District and Tehsil
Councils, Nazims of the Union Counbils and Councillors of the selected Mouzas/
villages were individually contacted ahd addressed on' the issue. In addition,
speciatty prepared pamphlets were pasted at important visible public places / sites
(like mosques, street crossings, entry points of the Mouza/ village / block etc.) right in
the beginning of the census operation in the selected Mouzas/ villages / urban
blocks.

DATA PROCESSING AND TABULATIONS

Data entry was done by the Federal Bureau of Statistics, Data Processing Centres,
Lahore and lslamabad. However, data processing was performed only at DP
Centre, Lahore. The data processing and tabulations were carried out through a
number of steps devised in a logical scheme of work as:

DOCUMENTS CONTROL:
A well-planned control room was established in ACO for rlaintenance of census
documents. After retrieval of documents from the fleld, these vilere checked in the
control room regarding required and completed number of questionnaires. One
kitbag was assured for each selected Mouza/ urban block. Differences found were
Orougnt into the notice of concerned officers for proper treatment from the fleld. Then
kitbags were arranged district and Tehsil wise in an array so that any Mouzai bag
could be traced out without any difficulty. A coding plan for this census was prepared
with the help of computer programmers showing one code for each and every Tehsil
of the country and documents were arranged according to the coding plan.

MANUAL CODING:

Coding refers to the assignment of a specific number / code to the information asked
in a farticular question during enumeration to facilitate the data processing on
computers. The data items of hain questionnaires werepre-coded with the help of
computer programmers. However, identification of every questionnaire and their