Transcript Recap – Day 1

Recap – Day 1
Training modules
• Time available for enumerator’s training: 12 hours &
45 minutes
• Time has been built-in in the training guide for MTs
• Quiz & roleplays: to be run during enumerator’s
training
• Gender issues incorporated in training module
• PPT & & e-learning module: being finalised
• 262 identified gender sensitive districts : special
gender module will be run
Training notes: Recap
• Census: Complete coverage and accurate enumeration
• Census is not merely a headcount
• Dates of population enumeration Census 2011:
– February 6th – 8th: Getting acquainted with the EB, preparing layout
map
– February 9th – 28th : updating Abridged Houselist (AHL) and
canvassing the Household Schedule
– February 28th night: enumeration of houseless population
– March 1st – 5th: Revisional round
– March 7th: Preparation of provisional population total and sending
to DCO
– By March 15th: All validated totals should reach ORGI headquarters
– By March 31st: Provisional Results released by RG & CC I
• Census moment: 00.00 hrs of 1st March 2011
• Phase II: Timeline is of paramount importance
Recap: Duties, Legal provisions
• Enumerator: Should not be allowed to bunch work
• Supervisor: Should monitor, assess and ensure that the work
is completed
• Census Act & Rules:
– Census Officers are appointed U/S 4 of Census Act, 1948
– Section 15 provides for Confidentiality of information given by the
informant
– Section 11 has provisions for penalties
• Decisions:
– Supervisor’s role may be elaborated on a 2 page write-up and weekly
reporting format should be circulated
– Supervisors may be given a short separate training to explain her role
• Checking a part of filled-in Schedules
• Checking that deaths would be deleted.
Recap: Concepts and definitions
• Census:
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Collection of Demographic, economic & Social data
At a Well defined geography
At a specified time
Note the adjustments in concepts, definitions and operational
procedures that have taken place from decade to decade
• Jobs already done:
– Houselisting and Housing Census
– Printing of Abridged Houselist (AHL) and sending to
• Jobs to be done:
– Demarcating EBs from HLBs and writing AHL
– Updating AHL and PE
Recap: Updating AHL
• AHL has 6 Sections
• Section 1 has concordance statement between HLB and EB
– Concordance statement is to be prepared if HLB has been split into more than
one sub-block
– The change should be reflected in the Map and Charge Register
– Geographic boundary should be clearly available while making the Sub-Blocks
• Section 2:
– Houselisting and Housing Census
– Printing of Abridged Houselist (AHL) and sending to
• Jobs to be done: Issue clarification on
– How to give EB number a new area left uncovered during HLO?
– Whether Sub-block can be formed if buildings in one area has not been
covered during HLO
– How to show it in the map and in the revised Charge Register?
– Which are the situations where a Schedule is to be filled-up or not (consider
each of situations 1 to 9)
– Pre-filling of form means filling-up location particulars up to EB number and
sub-block number
Recap: Layout map
• Even if there is no sub-block formation
– Update AHL and draw fresh layout map
• Jobs to be done:
– Make a flow-chart on what the enumerators will do
Abridged Houselist
Jobs of the enumerator (Summary at Para 2.4 to 2.7)
Attend training at the
specified dates and
times given
(Para 2.5 (i))
last day of training:
Collect Census materials
including Identity card
Check location
particulars appointment
letter vs. AHL
6th – 8th February 2011
Identify EB boundary and prepare layout
map (Para 4.54)
Same house No. on AHL and updated
layout map (Para 4.53 (ii))
Make separate Layout Map & other
material for each allotted EB (para 4.34)
Do not copy layout map of HLO
By 6th March 2011
Handover all records to
Supervisor with certificate
of complete coverage and
inventory of used / unused
materials
(Para 10.13 to 10.15)
Submit one folder for each
allotted EB (Para 10.12)
1st to 5th March 2011:
revisional round
Update Household
Schedule (Chapter 8)
Strike page totals (Para
6.252 to 6.259)
Prepare working sheet
and enumerator’s
abstract (Ch. 9 & 10)
Night 28th
Feb 2011:
enumeration
of houseless
households
(Chapter 7)
9th – 28th February 2011
Update AHL and fill-up
Household Schedule
together (Para 4.57)
Same house number on
AHL and updated layout
map (Para 4.53 ii)
Separate set for each
allotted EB
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Recap: Schedule
• Top of Schedule
– Do not write on bar code area
– Filling-up the location codes is very important for preparation of
summary and village-wise data
– Fill-up the particulars from AHL correctly
– Give description of the institutional households
• Questions 1 to 6:
– Assure confidentiality of information to get all members, servants,
PG, etc.
– Read paragraph 6.6 to decide persons who are eligible to be
enumerated before too much digression takes place
– Write relationship to head in full
– If date of birth is not known, first try to estimate the year of birth, not
age
– For marital status and age at marriage, ensure about confidentiality to
get correct response
Recap: Gender module and Q 7 to 14
• Gender module
– District level data sheets will be provided to GMTs
– Census does not leave persons based on gender
– Instead of showing the data first,
• ask whether milking, etc. are work or not
• Then, show the data and ask why these are so low
• Then, how the figures so low? – both us and respondents are
responsible
• Question 8:
– An SC/ST is one whose caste/tribe name appears in the list
– Census does not have anything to do with her/his social
standing
– Use the list given as per updated Central notification given by
the DCO, not any other State list
Recap: Gender module and Q 7 to 14
• Question 8:
– Do not enter into any dispute, tell firmly about the law to record
as per list
– Migrant SC/ST status is not recognised, the lists are State specific
– Check the spelling both in English and local language with the
actual notification
– An enumeration of all castes will be carried out separately. Only
SC/ST are being canvassed now
• It has been decided at the highest level that it will be done without
affecting the sanctity of headcount
• Questions 10, 11:
– Record exactly as the respondent is telling
Recap: Q 12 to 14
• Questions 12 to 14:
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Q 12 and 13 will be in codes, Q 14 is description
Able to Read and write with UNDERSTANDING
Page totals are to be struck after revisional round
We are not verifiers. So, do not emphasise on literacy tests in
Para 6.81
– For disabled, record whether they attend special institution
although that institution is providing degrees (do not record
school, college if they are attending special institutions)