| What does the Under Five Mortality Rate indicate? | Probability of dying between birth and age 5. | This can be used as approximate value of Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) which gives the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. Probability of dying between birth and age 2. Probability of dying between birth and age 5. This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that the person should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of age below seven years have been treated as illiterate even though some of them may be attending schools and may be able to read and write a few words. Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | 240 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | Probability of dying between birth and age 2. Probability of dying between birth and age 5. This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. | 8 | page=8,block=0 | 0.700 | valid |
| What is the definition of a literate person? | A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. | This can be used as approximate value of Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) which gives the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. Probability of dying between birth and age 2. Probability of dying between birth and age 5. This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that the person should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of age below seven years have been treated as illiterate even though some of them may be attending schools and may be able to read and write a few words. Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | 351 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. |
| What is the definition of an agricultural labourer? | A person who works in another person's land for wages in cash kind or share crop is regarded as an agricultural labourer. | Agricultural labourer A person who works in another person's land for wages in cash kind or share crop is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Such a person has no ri'sk in cultivation but merely works in another person's land for wages and has no right of lease or contract on the land on which he works. Household Industry An industry conducted by one or more members of the household at home or within the village in rural areas and within the precincts of the house where the household lives in urban areas. It should be smaller than the scale of a registered factory and should be engaged in manufacturing, processing, servicing and repairs of goods. | 22 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | Agricultural labourer A person who works in another person's land for wages in cash kind or share crop is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Such a person has no ri'sk in cultivation but merely works in another person's land for wages and has no right of lease or contract on the land on which he works. | 9 |
| What is the literacy rate of the population defined as? | the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | This can be used as approximate value of Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) which gives the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. Probability of dying between birth and age 2. Probability of dying between birth and age 5. This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that the person should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of age below seven years have been treated as illiterate even though some of them may be attending schools and may be able to read and write a few words. Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | 822 | definition | 1.000 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | 8 |
| How is the term 'mother tongue' defined? | the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person. | urban agglomeration of enumeration. As per the census concept, each language is a group of mother tongues. The census questionnaire collects information on the mother tongue of each person and mother tongue is defined as the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person. The mother tongues returned by the respondents in census were classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. Mother tongues with 10,000 or more speakers at all-India level are presented separately under the relevant language, while those mother tongues which returned less than 10,000 speakers each and which were classified under a particular langtlage are included in "others" under that language. | 221 | definition | 0.980 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | The census questionnaire collects information on the mother tongue of each person and mother tongue is defined as the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person. The mother tongues returned by the respondents in census were classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. |
| What does the Infant Mortality Rate represent? | the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. | This can be used as approximate value of Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) which gives the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. Probability of dying between birth and age 2. Probability of dying between birth and age 5. This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that the person should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of age below seven years have been treated as illiterate even though some of them may be attending schools and may be able to read and write a few words. Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | 80 | definition | 0.980 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | This can be used as approximate value of Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) which gives the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. Probability of dying between birth and age 2. |
| What is the definition of a nonworker? | A person who has not worked at all in the year preceding the date of enumeration. | Nonworker Cultivator work is less than 183 days. A person who has not worked at all in the year preceding the date of enumeration. A person engaged as employer, single worker or family worker in cultivation of undernoted crops on land owned or held from government or private persons or institutions for payment in money, kind or share. Cultivation includes supervision or direction of cultivation. Cultivation includes ploughing, sowing and harvesting and production of cereals and millet crops such as wheat, paddy, jowar, bajra, ragi, etc., and pulses, raw jute and kindred fiber crop, cotton, etc .. Cultivation does not include growing of fruits and vegetables, keeping orchard or groves or working in plantations like tea, coffee, rubber, cinchona and medicinal plants. | 49 | definition | 0.980 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | Nonworker Cultivator work is less than 183 days. A person who has not worked at all in the year preceding the date of enumeration. A person engaged as employer, single worker or family worker in cultivation of undernoted crops on land owned or held from government or private persons or institutions for payment in money, kind or share. |
| Who is considered literate? | A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. | This can be used as approximate value of Infant Mortality Rate(IMR) which gives the ratio of number of deaths In a year of children aged less than one year to the number of births in that year. Probability of dying between birth and age 2. Probability of dying between birth and age 5. This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. It is not necessary that the person should have received any formal education or should have passed any minimum educational standard. All children of age below seven years have been treated as illiterate even though some of them may be attending schools and may be able to read and write a few words. Literacy rate of the population is defined as the percentage of literates in the age group seven years and above. | 351 | definition | 0.980 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | This indicator is also known as Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) A person who can read and weite in any language is literate. A person who can merely read but cannot write is not literate. |
| How are habitation areas in forest regions classified in unsurveyed areas? | each habitation area with locally recognized boundaries within each forest range officer's beat is treated as one village | The basic unit for rural areas is the revenue village which -has definite surveyed boundaries. The revenue village may comprise several hamlets but the entire village is treated as one unit for presentation of data. In unsurveyed areas, like villages within forest areas, each habitation area with locally recognized boundaries within each forest range officer's beat is treated as one village. The following are treated as towns: (a) Statutory towns, i.e., municipal corporation, municipal board, cantonment board, notified area, etc .. (b) Census towns which are non-statutory towns and are actually rural areas but satisfy the following criteria: (i) Minimum population of 5,000. (ii) Density of population of at least 400 per sq'. km. (iii) Seventy-five per cent of the male working population engaged in non agricultural activity. . Towns with population of 1,00,000 and above are called cities. | 272 | summary | 0.970 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | In unsurveyed areas, like villages within forest areas, each habitation area with locally recognized boundaries within each forest range officer's beat is treated as one village. |
| How are mother tongues reported in the census organized? | classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. | urban agglomeration of enumeration. As per the census concept, each language is a group of mother tongues. The census questionnaire collects information on the mother tongue of each person and mother tongue is defined as the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person. The mother tongues returned by the respondents in census were classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. Mother tongues with 10,000 or more speakers at all-India level are presented separately under the relevant language, while those mother tongues which returned less than 10,000 speakers each and which were classified under a particular langtlage are included in "others" under that language. | 354 | summary | 0.970 | https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/33027/download/36845/35773_1991_DIS.pdf | The mother tongues returned by the respondents in census were classified and grouped under appropriate languages according to their linguistic characteristics. Mother tongues with 10,000 or more speakers at all-India level are presented separately under the relevant language, while those mother tongues which returned less than 10,000 speakers each and which were classified under a particular langtlage are included in "others" under that language. |