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Census of India 1931 - India: Report

1933

; Earners (subsidiary occupation) ; Occupation of females ; Selected occupations ; Occupations in selected cities ; Number of persons employed in the Railway Department on the 26th February 1931 ; Number of persons employed in the Irrigation Department on the 26th February 1931 ; Number of persons employed in the Post Office and Telegraph Department on the 26th February 1931 ; Statistics of Factor [...] The taking of the pecennial census in India involves the co-operation of more than one-sixth of the world's population over an area of nearly two million square miles in a combined response to organised enquiry and the expense would be prohibitive if all the services rendered were paid. [...] In the case of Ahmadabad the census was not completed and the number actually enumerated was estimated to be some seventy-five to seventy-six thousand short of the real total ; according to the census since taken by the Ahmadabad Municipality itself the deficiency was nearly the double of my estimate. [...] The entries in the schedules are copied on to slips omitting the block circle and charge numbers and of course the personal names and are then sorted into sets of labelled pigeoholes and counted for the figures which constitute the tables. [...] On the other hand the figures of urban population in Gujarat and of civil condition must be admitted to be below the previous standard of accuracy a degeneration due in the one case to Congress activities and in the other primarily to the indirect influence of the Bards Act but also perhaps in some degree to the very same change in the method of sorting andINTRODUCTION.
government politics public policy
Pages
549
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
Segment Pages Author Actions
Introduction
i-xviii J.H. Hutton view
Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of Population
1-43 unknown view
Chapter II. Urban and Rural
44-61 unknown view
Chapter III. Birth-Place and Migration
62-79 unknown view
Chapter IV. Age
80-194 unknown view
Chapter V. Sex
195-214 unknown view
Chapter VI. Civil Condition
215-252 unknown view
Chapter VII. Infirmities
253-272 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Occupation
273-323 unknown view
Chapter IX. Literacy
324-347 unknown view
Chapter X. Language
348-ii unknown view
Chapter XI. Religion
379-424 unknown view
Chapter XII. Caste Tribe and Race
425-470 unknown view
Appendix
471-508 unknown view
Index
509-518 unknown view