Stages of census methods/How a national census is taken

1. Determination of contents; what type of information are to be collected, eg: geographical, personal, economic, educational etc..

2. Development of the schedule; means construction of questionnaire, question should be pre-tested, the language should be simple and understandable, no jargons should be used

3. Division of work; the whole country should be divided into regions and sub regions. People are appointed in different fields

4. House listing; house list is necessary each house is counted in numbered in household survey the following items are observed.

a) The house list.

b) The house hold schedule.

c) The individual statement.

5. Pre-testing of questionnaire: the questions including are not put on selected persons at random. The questions do not carry different meaning. There are two types of questions.

 closed questions

 open-ended questions

6. Training : each persons in census hierarchy has to be given, the staff well trained

7. Impartiality : The person should not have their own preferences and prejudices. They should be impartial in their duties and data collected is unbiased.

8. Enumeration :The enumerators are mainly school teachers, each person is enumerate at the place where they are found. There are two method of enumeration: (a) De Jure (b) De Facto

9. Tabulation: The data collected was carefully checked, edited and properly tabulated and coded.

10. Checking errors: The data are clearly checked and marked

11. Publications: Finally the date will be published and made available for public.A