Question

What do you mean by Census? How it is useful?

Answer 1

1. Population census is the total process of collecting, compiling, analyzing, or otherwise disseminating demographic, economic, and social data pertaining at a specific time, of all persons in a country or a well-defined part of a country.
2. Census is being taken in an interval of ten years.
3. The data collected through the census are used for administration, planning, policymaking, management, and evaluation of various programs by the government.
4. In India 1st census was carried out in the year 1872.
5. But the first complete and synchronous census was conducted in 1881 The 2011 census represents the fifteenth census of India.