The 1981 Census enumeration was conducted during the period from 9th February to 28th February 1981, followed by a revisional round from 1st March to 5th March, 1981 with the sunrise of 1st March, 1981 as the reference moment. The enumerators counted the houseless population on the night of 28th February, 1981.
Soon after the field operation was over in March, 1981 we had published provisional Paper-1 of 1981 Census of Orissa State. This publication was a mere compilation of the abstracts prepared by the Census enumerators which were obtained through a quick process of relay. It contained consolidated figures for the state and the districts of the state. In this publication basic and provisional data with four tables on distribution of population, sex ratio, growth rate and density of population by districts were presented. The decadal variation in population since 1901, literates and literacy rates by sex in the districts along with other basic characteristics observed in the cities (with population of 1 lakh and above) were also presented to the readers in this publication along with a few maps. Though cryptic, a short analysis indicating discernible trend was also presented in this publication. We had also presented the provisional population of the States and Union Territories in India with sex and literacy break up, as released by the Registrar General.
Soon after the retrieval of voluminous records from the field level functionaries available in the entire length and breadth of the State, the same were scrutinised at five Regional Tabulation Offices set up at Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Berhampur round the clock. It is needless to reiterate that in a work of such colossal dimension, detailed scrutiny requires considerable length of time. However, with an anxiety to present the readers a few more details on Census up to the tahsil and town level in the state, the present publication which is a supplement to Paper-1 has been attempted. After a preliminary scrutiny in the Regional Tabulation offices, necessary data have been compiled for preparation of the next set of five tables as Indicated below:
Table 1: Rural-urban composition of population
Table 2: Population and growth rate of citles, urban agglomerations and towns.
Table 3: Urban population by size-class of towns
Table 4: Workers and their percentages to total population
Table 5: Distribution of workers by cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry and other workers.
In addition to the above tables, provisional Primary Census Abstracts giving area, population by sex, density of population, sex ratio, number of literates and literacy rates, number of male and female workers (cultivators, agricultural labourers, workers in household industry and other workers), marginal workers and non-workers (by sex) in each district up to tahsil and town level has been presented in this publication for rural and urban areas of the State.
Besides, data on physically handicapped persons as obtained during the houselisting operation in 1980 have been presented in this publication.
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