Centre ready for Census 2027
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The questions aim to paint a picture of Indian households, their finances and social status among other things. Hundred national trainers would be trained at the apex level on both census and trainer development skills. As per a report in PTI, these national trainers will impart training to the next level, that is, master trainers.
Around 1800 master trainers will then further the training to 45,000 field trainers, who would then train field functionaries, i.e., the enumerators and the supervisors. The questions comprise a crucial part of this training as they have been designed to find out about the growth Indian households have achieved since 2011, when the last census was done.
Around three dozen questions have reportedly been prepared by the officials to ascertain the social and financial status of the Indian households.
- Name, whether they are married, details of children
- Educational qualification
- Employment (Public, private, self etc)
- If they own a telephone, internet connection, mobile or smartphone.
- If they own a bicycle, scooter or motorcycle or car
- The cereal they consume in the household
- Main source of drinking water
- Main source of lighting
- Access to latrines, type of latrine.
- Wastewater outlet, availability of bathing facility,
- Availability of kitchen and LPG/PNG connection, main fuel used for cooking
- Availability of radio, transistor and television.
- Predominant material of the floor, wall and roof of the census house, and the condition of the census house
- Total number of persons normally residing in the household
- Whether the head of the household is a woman.
- If the head of the household belongs to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe,
- Number of dwelling rooms exclusively within the household
- Number of married couples living in the household.
Notably, the Census is the primary source of data that is collected from every section of society and is a decennial activity (conducted every 10 years).
The trained enumerators and supervisors will be the ones who will do the house-to-house census exercise at designated places.
