As part of preparations for Census activities, all such changes that have taken place after the 2001 Census are incorporated on the maps at state, union territory, district and sub-district level to have a complete and updated map of the respective areas. The quality of maps used in the census influences the quality and reliability of census data.Īfter 2001 Census, several jurisdictional changes had taken place at district, sub-district, village, town and ward-in-town levels. In order to have a complete enumeration of the entire country without any omission or overlapping, it is important to have a complete coverage of the latest administrative set-up like states, union territories, districts, sub-districts, villages, towns and towns-in-ward which are cartographically represented in the form of maps. A P Singh, Deputy Registrar General (Map), Office of Registrar General of India (ORGI), one of the most important pre-requisites of any census is the availability of latest maps for use in census. One of the important achievements of 2001 Census was to generate the digital geographic database of villages, showing the boundary for each sub-district in the country for use in GIS except for some states where the land settlement survey has not been taken up or completed yet.Īccording to Dr. GIS is poised to play a significant role in the Census, taking further its role in the previous Census. In the first phase, the housing and house listing operation will be completed which will be followed by census enumeration in March 2011. Lehohla said: "We take note of the Khoi and San issue because they are not any of the four races we are talking about.India: The exercise for Census 2011 has got under way in India this month. "We have a four race situation that we have inherited in South Africa." "The Gouriquas are first indigenous people and refuse to be called 'Others' by visitors in our homeland," Gouriqua House spokesperson Elroy Baron said.
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Johannes Kraalshoek of the Free State Griqua council had earlier complained that Khoi and San people were given the choice of defining themselves only as "Coloured" or "Other" by census enumerators. Khoi and San concerns about being forced into racial classification boxes that they did not identify with, were justified, Lehohla said.
He ruled out an immediate extension to the census saying "if they can't cover everything in the mop-up, an extension will be formally requested". The 2001 census had a 17% "under-count", but Lehohla said double digit under-counts were a thing of the past. Lehohla estimated that less than 10% of the population would remain uncounted by the time a two-week "mop-up" operation had finished. He denied media reports that three women enumerators had been raped, saying those were cases of attempted rape. Lehohla said it would have been "enormously expensive" to provide enumerators with transport home at night after they had finished counting people who were only at home in the evening. Another R700-million would be spent on paying enumerators who get R5000 each for their work, and supervisors R7500 each, Lehohla said. The total budget for the census was R3.2-billion, and 36% had been spent by yesterday. He said 16000 households had refused to be counted, and they would be served with court papers for breaking the law. With 156000 enumerators distributing about 20-million questionnaires, 98.8% of the country had been covered, he said.Įight enumerators lost their lives in accidents and there were 10 "unpalatable incidents where we had assaults", 15 robberies and seven cases of intimidation, Lehohla said. Speaking at a press conference at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on the last day of the census counting yesterday, statistician-general Pali Lehohla said the count had gone "smoothly". STATISTICS SA says this year's census has been a great success despite eight enumerators losing their lives and another 10 being assaulted.
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