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Census yearwise : |
1872 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1941 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 |
| From census to census, the techniques
have been gradually changing with a view to improve the accuracy
and quality of the data without losing comparability from one census
to the other. The following Chart shows how the census questionnaire,
the primary tool of census operations had been developed from census
to census taking into account the changing needs of the country. |
| 1872:
House Register
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- Number of houses, whether terraced, tiled or thatched
- Name of Males
- Age
- Religion
- Caste or Class
- Race or Nationality or Country of Birth
- Occupation
- Youths upto age 20 attending school, college or under private
tuition
- Able to read and write
- Name or Designation of Females
- Age
- Religion
- Caste or Class
- Race or Nationality or Country of Birth
- Youths upto age 20 attending school, college or under private
tuition
- Able to read and write
- Remarks showing number of males and females, blind, deaf, dumb,
insane, idiots
or lepers
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| 1881:
Census Schedule |
- Serial No. Of each inmate
- Name
- Condition i.e. whether married, unmarried, widow or widower
- Sex
- Age last birthday
- Religion
- Religion
- Caste, if Hindu, sect, if of other religion
- Mother tongue
- Place of birth
- Occupation of men; also of boys and females who may do work
- Education
1. Under instruction
2. Not under instruction but able
to read and write
3. Not under instruction and not able
to read and write
- Infirmities
1. Unsound mind
2. Deaf-mutes from birth
3. Blind
4. Lepers
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| 1891:
Census Schedule |
- Serial no. and name
- Main religion
- Sect of religion
- Caste or race-Main caste & c
- Sub-division of caste or race
- Male or female
- Age
- Married, single, or widowed
- Parent tongue
- Birth district or country
- Occupation or means of subsistence
- Learning, Knowing, Illiterate
- Foreign language known (if any)
- If any, be blind, insane, deaf-mute or a leper, enter the
infirmity below
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| 1901:
Census Schedule |
- House number
- Serial number
- Name
- Religion
- Male or female
- Married, Unmarried or widowed
- Age
- Caste of Hindus & Jains, Tribe, or race of others
- Occupation or means of subsistence of actual workers: Principal
- Occupation or means of subsistence of actual workers: Subsidiary
- Means of subsistence of dependants on actual workers
- Birth place
- Language ordinarily used
- Literate or Illiterate
- Know or does not know English
- Insane, deaf-mute from birth, totally blind or leper
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| 1911:
Census Schedule |
- Census number painted on the house
- Serial number of persons enumerated
- Name
- Religion (and sect of Christians)
- Male or Female
- Married, Unmarried or Widowed
- Age completed last birthday
- Caste of Hindu and Jains, tribe or race of those of other
religions
- Occupation or means of subsistence of actual workers : Principal
Occupation
- Occupation or means of subsistence of actual workers : Subsidiary
Occupation,
if any
- If dependant, principal occupation or means of subsistence
of actual worker on
whom dependent
- District, Province or Country in which born
- Language ordinarily spoken in the household
- Literate or Illiterate
- Whether literate in English
- If the person be insane or totally blind or suffering from
corrosive leprosy or both
deaf and dumb from birth, enter as such here
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| 1921:
Census Schedule |
- House No.
- Serial number of person
- Name
- Religion
- Male or Female
- Married, Unmarried or Widowed
- Age
- Caste, Tribe or Race
- Occupation or means of subsistence of actual workers : Principal
- Occupation or means of subsistence of actual workers : Subsidiary
- For dependants, the occupation of the worker by whom supported
- Birth district
- Language ordinarily used
- Literate or Illiterate
- Whether literate in English
- Insane, totally blind, leper or deaf-mute
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| 1931:
Census Schedule |
- Serial No. of house or tenement
- Serial No. of person
- Name
- Religion and Sect
- Male or Female (enter M or F)
- Married, Unmarried, or Widowed (enter Divorced persons as
widowed)
- Age (in years to nearest birthday)
- Race, Tribe or Caste
- Earner or dependant
- Principal occupation (this will be blank for dependant)
- Subsidiary occupation (occupation of dependants may be given)
- Industry in which employed (for organized employees only)
- Birth district (or country)
- Mother tongue
- Other language in common use
- Whether literate (i.e., able to write and read a letter)
- Whether able to read and write English
- Insane, totally blind, deaf-mute or leper
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| 1941:
Individual Slip |
- Name
- Sex
- Race, Tribe or Caste
- Religion
- Married, unmarried, widowed or divorced
- Age
- Number of children born to a married woman and number surviving
- Her age at birth of first child
- Are you wholly or partly dependent on any one else?
- If so, means of livelihood of person on whom dependent
- Do you employ
(a) paid assistants
(b) members of household?
If so, how many?
- Are you in employment now?
- (Only to those who reply in the negative to question 12)
Are you in search of employment?
(To those who reply in the affirmative the further question will
be put)
How long have you been in search of it?
- Means of livelihood in order of importance
- (Only to be asked in regard to means of livelihood of a
person shown
as partly dependent against question 9 or any subsidiary means of
livelihood returned by other persons against question 14).
Does this means of livelihood exist throughout the year?
If not, for what part of the year?
- If you are employed by some one else, what is his business?
- Were you born in this district? If not, in what district
- Mother tongue
- Other Indian languages in common use
- Can you both read and write? If so, what script do you write?
Can you only read?
- How far have you read? Give any examination passed.
- Are you literate in English?
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| 1951:
Individual Slip |
- Name and relationship to the head of the household
- Nationality, Religion and Special Group
Part (a) Nationality
Part (b) Religion
Part (c) Special Groups
- Civil condition
- Age
- Birth place
- Displaced persons
- Mother tongue
- Bilingualism
- Economic Status
Part one: Dependency
Part two: Employment
- Principal means of livelihood
- Secondary means of livelihood
- Literacy and Education
- .......(Optional to State Government)*
- Sex
Note: (a) Name of States: Assam, Manipur & Tripura; Bihar; Bombay,
Saurashtra & Kutch;
Madhya Pradesh; Vindhya Pradesh; Mysore;
Orissa;
Punjab, PEPSU, Bilaspur, Delhi & Himachal Pradesh;
Rajasthan & Ajmer;
Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal & Sikkim;
Hyderabad;
Travancore-Cochin
(b)
NATURE OF QUESTION NO. 13 OF 1951 CENSUS
(OPTIONAL)
- Indigenous Persons:
(a) Are you an indigenous person of Assam?
(b) If so, state in the nearest bigha,
(i) the land you
own;
(ii) the land you have
rented in cash or in kind from others
- Fertility
- Unemployment
- Number of children born to a married woman and age at birth
of the first child
- Unemployment
- Unemployment
- Area of land owned and cultivated by the household
- Are you unemployed since 9th Feb. 1951? If so, give reason
- Infirmities
- Unemployment
- Do you cultivate land for which you pay rent? If so,
(a) how much do you cultivate yourself and or through
hired
labourers; and
(b) how much do you cultivate through bargadars, bhagdar or
adhiyars?
- Are you unemployed and in search of employment? If so,
since
when?
- Duration of marriage and size of family
(a) Completed years of married life
(b) Age of mother at first maternity
(c) Number of children born
(d) Number now alive
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| 1961:
Individual Slip |
- (a) Name
(b) Relationship to Head
- Age last birthday
- Marital Status
- (a) Birth place
(b) Born R/U
(c) Duration of residence, if born elsewhere
- (a) Nationality
(b) Religion
(c) S.C./S.T.
- Literacy & Education
- (a) Mother tongue
(b) Any other language(s)
- Working as Cultivator
- Working as Agricultural Labourer
- Working at Household Industry
(a) Nature of work
(b) Nature of Household Industry
(c) If Employee
- Doing work other than 8, 9 or 10
(a) Nature of work
(b) Nature of Industry, Profession, Trade and Service
(c) Class of worker
(d) Name of Establishment
- Activity, if not working
- Sex
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| 1971:
Individual Slip |
- Name
- Relationship to head
- Sex
- Age
- Marital Status
- For currently married women only
(a) Age at marriage
(b) Any child born in the last one year
- BIRTH PLACE
(a) Place of birth
(b) Rural/Urban
(c) District
(d) State/Country
- LAST RESIDENCE
(a) Place of last residence
(b) Rural/Urban
(c) District
(d) State/Country
- Duration of Residence at the village or town of enumeration
- Religion
- S.C. or S.T.
- Literacy (L or O)
- Educational level
- Mother tongue
- Other languages
- MAIN ACTIVITY
(a) Broad category
(i)
Worker (C, AL, HHI, OW)
(ii)
Non-worker (H, S, T, R, D, B, I, O)
(b) Place of work (Name of Village/Town)
(c) Name of Establishment
(d) Nature of Industry, Trade, Profession or Service
(e) Description of Work
(f) Class of worker
- SECONDARY WORK
(a) Broad Category (C, AL, HHI, OW)
(b) Place of work (Name of Village/Town)
(c) Name of Establishment
(d) Nature of Industry, Trade, Profession or Service
(e) Description of Work
(f) Class of Worker
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