The government has notified the questions that will be asked of every individual during the second phase of the Census 2027. Many of these questions were never part of such an exercise. The particulars of the parents, spouse, and permanent address. A question on nationality that was not asked after the 1961 census has made a comeback.
United Nations defines a population census as, “the total process of planning, collecting, processing, analysing, disseminating and evaluating demographic, economic and social data at the smallest geographic level pertaining, at a specified time, to all persons in a country or in a well-delimited part of a country”. It is clear from this definition that the census is viewed as an activity to collect statistics about the population.Now, take a look at the questions asked to every individual during the collection of data for the National Population Register in 2011.
Name
Name of the person as should appear in the NPR
Relationship to head (of household)
