1st Edition
Population Census in India A Futuristic Perspective
List of tables vi Foreword vii Preface x List of abbreviations xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Planning for population census 14 3 Population and housing census 31 4 Census questionnaires 44 5 Segments difficult to enumerate 57 6 Slum demography 62 7 Urban-rural classification 66 8 Permanent house numbering 75 9 Census mapping 84 10 Concepts and definitions 93 11 Issuses for deliberations 127 12 Epilogue 141 Annexure: Census questionnaires: population and housing census 1872–2011 145 Index 178
Biography
Seema Jain, Secretary, the Government of India, did her Masters in Sustainable Energy Policy (2016–18) in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and MBA (Public Policy) 2007–08 in the University of Birmingham, UK. She conducted the Census of India 2011 as Director Census Operations, Punjab, from 2009 to 2014 for which she was awarded the President of India Silver Medal. Her areas of expertise include rural development, information technology, housing and urban planning, agricultural marketing, horticulture, food processing, forests and environment, and population census taking in India.
Madhav Shyam, Deputy Director, Directorate of Census, Punjab (now superannuated), has been associated with the census organisation for five decadal censuses. He was nominated by the office of Registrar Government of India (ORGI) for a ten-week Course on ‘Population Census Geography’ at the University of East Anglia, UK; a six-week Workshop on ‘GIS’ at US Bureau of Census, Washington; and a one-week Training Workshop on ‘Population and Poverty in South Asia’ organised jointly by the IIPS, Mumbai and UNESCAP. He is actively engaged in the census domain and is frequently invited to deliver lectures and talks at universities, training organisations and at other stakeholder forums.
