63 extractive question-and-answer pairs built from A Hand Book of Population Statistics, published by censusindia.gov.in. Every answer is a verbatim span of text the source prints, and each row carries the passage it sits in, its offset in that passage, the source quote, the page and the location in the document, so any row can be checked against the original. 39 of the 63 pairs (61.9%) are explanatory questions and 24 restate a figure. 95.24% of rows pass the corpus quality gate.
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| question | answer | context | answer_start | question_type | knowledge_quality_score | source_quote | source_page | source_location | confidence | validation_status |
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| What is the definition of a literate person? | A person who can both read and write with understanding in any language is literate. | 12.Divorcedorseparated A person who has been separated from wife or husband and is living apart with no apparent intention of living together again or who has been divorced either by decree of law court or by an accepted social or religious custom but who has not remarried. 13. Literate A person who can both read and write with understanding in any language is literate. A person who can merely read hut cannot write, is not literate. It is not necessary that a person who is literate should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of the age of 4 years or less are treated as illiterates even if the child is going to a school and may have picked up reading and writing a few odd words. 14. Literacy rate The number of literates per hundred population of a particular sex and age group. 15. | 288 | definition | 1.000 | Literate A person who can both read and write with understanding in any language is literate. A person who can merely read hut cannot write, is not literate. | 219 | page=219,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| How is an urban agglomeration treated in the census across decades? | as a continuing physical entity in the previous decades as a single unit | Since their population in previous years Le. 1901·1941 could not be ascertained, they cannot be assigned to their appropriate classes and also have been left out in working out the percentage of population in this Table for India. 3. Percentage of India is worked out after excluding the population of 12,019 of Kanchrapara rural development colony in 1951 from 'All Classes' which gave place to Kalyani and Gayeshpur Govt. Colony towns of Nadia District of West 8engal in 1961. 4. An urban agglomeration has been treated as a continuing physical entity in the previous decades as a single unit and classHied according to the population of the urban agglomeration in that Census. | 522 | definition | 1.000 | An urban agglomeration has been treated as a continuing physical entity in the previous decades as a single unit and classHied according to the population of the urban agglomeration in that Census. | 152 | page=152,block=13 | 0.700 | valid |
| What does the age-sex specific mortality rate measure? | The number of deaths during the last year per 1000 population of a particular sex age-group. | 30. Age specittc fertility rate 3L Age-sex specific mortality rate The number of children born alive during the last year per 1000 women of a particular age-group. The number of deaths during the last year per 1000 population of a particular sex age-group. | 164 | definition | 1.000 | Age specittc fertility rate 3L Age-sex specific mortality rate The number of children born alive during the last year per 1000 women of a particular age-group. The number of deaths during the last year per 1000 population of a particular sex age-group. | 221 | page=221,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| Who qualifies as currently married? | The persons who are recognised by custom or society as married and persons in stable de facto union are also considered as currently married. | A household is a group of persons who commonly live together and would take their meals from a common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevented any of them from doing so. There may be a household of persons related by blood or a household of unrelated persons or having a mix of both. Examples of unrelated household are boarding houses, messes, hostels, residential hotels, rescue homes, jails, ashrams, etc. These are called institutional households. Females per one thousand maies. Population per sq. km. Total years completed by the person last birthday. A person who has never been married at any time before. A person whose marriage is subsisting with spouse living. It may be hislher first marriage or subsequent marriage. The persons who are recognised by custom or society as married and persons in stable de facto union are also considered as currently married. | 736 | definition | 0.980 | It may be hislher first marriage or subsequent marriage. The persons who are recognised by custom or society as married and persons in stable de facto union are also considered as currently married. | 218 | |||
| What does the literacy rate represent? | The number of literates per hundred population of a particular sex and age group. | 12.Divorcedorseparated A person who has been separated from wife or husband and is living apart with no apparent intention of living together again or who has been divorced either by decree of law court or by an accepted social or religious custom but who has not remarried. 13. Literate A person who can both read and write with understanding in any language is literate. A person who can merely read hut cannot write, is not literate. It is not necessary that a person who is literate should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of the age of 4 years or less are treated as illiterates even if the child is going to a school and may have picked up reading and writing a few odd words. 14. Literacy rate The number of literates per hundred population of a particular sex and age group. 15. | 772 | definition | 0.980 | Literacy rate The number of literates per hundred population of a particular sex and age group. 15. | 219 | page=219,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| Who is classified as a non-worker? | A person who had not worked any time at all in the year preceding the date of enumeration. | Non-worker A person who had not worked any time at all in the year preceding the date of enumeration. 20. Cultivator A person is a cultivator if he or she is engaged either as employer, single worker or family worker in cultivation of land owned or held from government or held from private persons or institutions for payment in money, | 11 | definition | 0.980 | Non-worker A person who had not worked any time at all in the year preceding the date of enumeration. 20. | 219 | page=219,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| What does the age-specific fertility rate measure? | The number of children born alive during the last year per 1000 women of a particular age-group. | 30. Age specittc fertility rate 3L Age-sex specific mortality rate The number of children born alive during the last year per 1000 women of a particular age-group. The number of deaths during the last year per 1000 population of a particular sex age-group. | 67 | definition | 0.980 | Age specittc fertility rate 3L Age-sex specific mortality rate The number of children born alive during the last year per 1000 women of a particular age-group. The number of deaths during the last year per 1000 population of a particular sex age-group. | 221 | page=221,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| Why was no census conducted in Assam in 1981? | disturbed conditions prevailing there at the time of Census | India figures exclude Assam where no census was taken in 1981 owing to disturbed conditions prevailing there at the time of Census. For comparative purpose the figures of Assam have also been excluded from 1901 to 1971. | 71 | relationship | 0.970 | India figures exclude Assam where no census was taken in 1981 owing to disturbed conditions prevailing there at the time of Census. | 152 | page=152,block=13 | 0.800 | valid |
| What kind of data does each decennial Census in India provide? | a large mass of data, covering a number of characteristics, often cross-classified by one or more other characteristics. | Each decennial Census in India throws up a large mass of data, covering a number of characteristics, often cross-classified by one or more other characteristics. The tables containing these data upto various levels of presentation go into hundreds of all-India and State or Union Territory-level volumes. While for indepth studies relating to particular parameters and particular levels of data-presentation, reference has necessarily to be made to the concerned volumes, we thought that a handy volume containing some key tables in some key areas may be of quite some use, for purposes of ready reference, alike to the researcher, the administrator and the lay person. The value of such a compendium, we further thought, will be enhanced if the tables are hacked up by and illustrated through maps, charts and diagrams. The present volume aims to be just this. | 41 | summary | 0.970 | Each decennial Census in India throws up a large mass of data, covering a number of characteristics, often cross-classified by one or more other characteristics. The tables containing these data upto various levels of presentation go into hundreds of all-India and State or Union Territory-level volumes. | ||||
| What unique benefit does the decennial census offer? | throwing a fund of demographic material to examine changes over time | India's population is acknowledged as the second largest in the world. The decennial census provides a snap-shot, as it were, of our population bringing out in bold relief its immense diversity. It has also the distinct advantage of throwing a fund of demographic material to examine changes over time. The basic population data given in this Section unfolds the story of our growing millions. It should serve "as a useful reference material to one and all, demographer and layman alike. These broadly bring out: the trends in growth of population in the country as well as its constituents and changes in characteristics such as density, sex ratio and age structure. For the first time in the recent Census history, information on people who unfortunately suffer from some major physical disabilities is also given. | 233 | summary | 0.970 | It has also the distinct advantage of throwing a fund of demographic material to examine changes over time. | 11 | page=11,block=1 | 0.700 | valid |
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