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SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CASTE
CENSUS 2011
Socio-Economic and Caste Census – Policy
Decision
 Below Poverty Line (BPL) Census is conducted every
five years to identify poor households in the rural
areas.
 Necessary to provide assistance under various
programmes of MORD, other ministries and State
Governments
 To conduct BPL Census in rural and urban areas
together with Caste Census.
 The methodology proposed to conduct the BPL Census
in rural areas and procedural issues have been
approved by the Union Cabinet.
 BPL Census to commence in June 2011
Socio-Economic and Caste Census : TOWARDS A
NEW METHODOLOGY
MoRD appointed Expert Group in August 2008 to
suggest methodology for identification of poor
Dr. N.C. Saxena, Chairperson of Expert Group submitted
report in August 2009
BPL PILOT SURVEY
Objective: To Test Validity of Indicators of Poverty and
Deprivation
NEED FOR BPL PILOT
 BPL Census 2002 had serious limitations and consequently
BPL list drawn had many flaws
 There had been reported errors of exclusions and inclusions
and APL persons put into BPL category and vice-versa
 Thus, need to devise a methodology that would avoid earlier
shortcomings as far as possible
 Need to pre-test methodology and implementation
mechanism
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The BPL Pilot
 First Stage: Socio-Economic
structured questionnaire
Survey
(SES)
using
 Second Stage: Participatory Socio-Economic Survey
(PSES) using PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal)
technique
 Pilot conducted in 254 selected villages
 Pilot Results discussed with State Governments
Results of BPL Pilot
 Automatic exclusion indicators are likely to exclude 28%
of the households
 3 or more deprivation indicators (SC/ST treated as one
deprivation) is likely to include 18% of the households
 2 or more deprivation indicators (SC/ST treated as one
deprivation) is likely to include 38% of the households
Methodology Proposed for Socio-Economic and
Caste Census 2011
 Rural Households classified in three steps
 First, a set of Households are EXCLUDED
 Second, a set of households are compulsorily INCLUDED
 Third, remaining households are RANKED as per the
number of deprivation indicators
Proposed Automatic Exclusion Criteria
 Motorized Two/Three/Four Wheelers/Fishing boats
(which require registration)
 Mechanized Three/ Four wheeler agricultural
equipment such as tractors, harvesters etc.
 Kisan Credit Card with the credit limit of Rs.50,000 and
above
 Households with any member as Government
Employee: gazetted/ non-gazetted/ central/ state
government/ PSU Government-aided autonomous
bodies and local bodies.
Proposed Automatic Exclusion Criteria
 Households with non-agricultural enterprise registered
with the Government
 Any member in the family earning more than Rs. 10,000
per month
 Paying income tax or professional tax
 Households with three or more rooms with all rooms
having pucca walls and pucca roof
 Owning Refrigerator
 Owning landline phones
Proposed Automatic Exclusion Criteria
 Households owning 2.5 acres or more irrigated land
with at least one irrigation equipment such as
diesel/ electric operated bore well/ tubewell;
 5 acres or more land irrigated for two or more crop
seasons;
 Households owning 7.5 acres or more land with at
least one irrigation equipment such as diesel/
electric operated borewell / tubewell
Proposed Automatic Inclusion Criteria
Households without shelter
Destitute/living on alms
Manual scavengers
Primitive Tribal Groups
Legally released bonded labourers
Ranking of Remaining Households using
Deprivation Indicators
 Households with only one room with kucha walls and
kucha roof
 Households with no adult member between age 16 to 59
 Female headed households with no adult male member
between age 16 to 59
 Households with any disabled member and no able
bodied adult member
 SC/ST households
 Households with no literate adult above 25 years
 Landless households deriving the major part of their
income from manual casual labour
Proposed Inclusion Priority
 Households eligible under compulsory inclusion will
have the highest priority
Percentage of HHs with Deprivation Scores
Deprivation Scores Households
25.00
Deprivation Scores
No. Deprivations
20.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
0.00
Households
7 Deprivations
0.00
6 Deprivations
0.20
5 Deprivations
1.00
4 Deprivations
4.40
3 Deprivations
12.30
2 Deprivations
19.90
1 Deprivations
20.30
0 Deprivations
13.30
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Proposed Methodology for Socio-Economic and
Caste Census 2011
 Respondent based canvassing method for the Census.
 Enumerator will visit every household and canvass the
questionnaire.
 Responses of the persons noted without any verification.
 No proof of document asked from the respondents.
Proposed Methodology for Socio-Economic
and Caste Census 2011
 Enumerator ask the questions; data entry operator
provided by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) enter the
responses into a Tablet PC.
 Acknowledgement slips issued to each household after
the enumeration.
 Enumerators notes in case he finds the information
prima facie incorrect
 Supervisor checks the discrepancies
 The information would be verified and approved by Gram
Sabha
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Administrative set-up
 Secretary, of the Rural/Urban Development Ministries
of the State Government would be in charge in each
State.
 The Collectors/DMs would be in charge in their
respective jurisdictions.
 Services of Tehsildars/BDO at the sub-district level and
the revenue/development machinery below them
would be requisitioned.
 Enumerators would be appointed at the local level.
 Enumerators would be selected by the State
Governments from Patwaries, Panchayat Secretaries,
Asha workers, municipal workers and postal workers
etc.
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Poverty Cap
• The Planning Commission has provided State-wise
estimates of poverty which is proposed to be used as
cap.
• However, the Planning Commission will not be providing
caps at the sub-state level.
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Proposed Inclusion Priority :Household Ranking
under Deprivation Indicators
 Deprivation indicators vary from 0 to 7.
 Highest deprivation score would be included first
followed by the next deprivation score and so on till the
cumulative percentage of these households do not
exceed the poverty cut-off fixed by the Planning
Commission.
 The deprivation cut-offs would be assigned after the
census has been completed based on actual data and
these would vary from state to state.
Proposed Inclusion Priority
 The order of priority for inclusion of households in the
BPL list would be from largest number of deprivations
to smallest number of deprivations.
 For the purpose of coverage under welfare schemes of
the Government, households eligible for compulsory
inclusion will have highest priority, followed by
households with higher deprivation scores.
Proposed Inclusion Priority
 For such welfare programme where universal coverage is
not permissible, the system would be capable of
generating a ranking of priority household till poverty
caps prescribed by the Planning Commission are attained.
 The deprivation cut-off will be chosen in such a manner
that the total percentage of households will be less than or
equal to the cut-off poverty ratio prescribed by the
Planning Commission.
Proposed Inclusion Priority
 The difference in the number of households prescribed by
Planning Commission and arrived at by deprivation cut-off
method, if any, will be identified by permitting households
with one less deprivation than deprivation cut-off from
Panchayats which have highest percentage of SC/ST
population in the State arranged seriatim in decreasing
order of percentage of SC/ST population. This method can
be used to arrive at any cut-off as required.
Example
 Suppose the poverty cap set by the Planning Commission is 55%.
Using exclusion indicators, 15% of the households are excluded.
For the remaining 85% households deprivation scores would be
assigned. Suppose all the households with 2 or more deprivations
together constitute 50% of the population. Households with 1
deprivation are 20% of the households and 15% of the households
with zero deprivation. The procedure would involve including all
households with 2 deprivations or more.
 Out of these 20% households, 5% (55% poverty cut off minus 50%
with 2 or more deprivation) will be selected by permitting
households with one less deprivation than deprivation cut-off from
Panchayats which have highest percentage of SC/ST population in
the State arranged seriatim in decreasing order of percentage of
SC/ST population.
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Example
Poverty cap set by the Planning
Commission is 55%. In this state,
43.5% of the households have 2 or
more
deprivations
and
19%
households have one deprivation. Out
of these 19% of the households, who
have one deprivation, 11.5% will be
selected for categorisation as BPL
families from the Panchayats with
highest proportion of Scheduled
Caste/Scheduled Tribe population.
Thus, total number of households
categorised as BPL (which is 55%)
would therefore, consist of 43.5% of
the households having 2 or more
deprivations and 11.5% households
from the Panchayats with highest
proportion of Scheduled Caste/
Scheduled Tribe population.
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Management Information System (MIS)
 Management Information System (MIS) will be developed
to facilitate use of database of Socio-Economic and Caste
Census 2011 by Central Ministries/State Governments.
 National Informatics Centre (NIC), which has been working
with the MoRD for several years and is engaged in developing
Management of Information System (MIS) for almost all its
programmes, will develop an MIS for the management of the
database of Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 and to
facilitate its subsequent use by the programme divisions,
other Ministries and State Governments for their own
requirements.
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