census

A New Political Flashpoint The demand for a nationwide caste census has erupted into one of the most polarizing debates in Indian politics. Supporters claim it’s a necessary step toward true social justice, allowing the government to recalibrate welfare schemes based on actual data. Opponents...

Is distress migration on a massive scale responsible for one of the most striking findings of Census 2011: that for the first time since 1921, urban India added more numbers to its population in a decade than rural India did? At 833.1 million, India's rural population today is 90.6 million...

Census versus Sample Census in simple terms means to measure each element in the group or population of interest. A part of a population, or a subset from a set of units, which is provided by some process or other, usually by deliberate selection with the object of investigating the...

A census taker approaches a house and asks the woman who answers the door "How many children do you have, and what are their ages?" Woman: "I have three children, the product of their ages are 36, the sum of their ages are equal to the address of the house next door." The census taker walks...