Census of India 1981

CENSUS OF INDIA 1981 SERIES-18 RAJASTHAN PAPER 1 OF 1985 HOUSEHOLD POPULATION BY RELIGION OF HEAD Oli' HOUSEHOLD (Upto Tehsil and Town level) I. C. SRIVASTAVA of the Indian Administrative service Director of Census Operatiollf> Rajasthan PREFACE This paper contains the religion data on the basis of information on religion of the head of household collected during the 198 1 Census through the house hold schedule. In the 1981 Census. a question on religion was included both in the Individual Slip and the Household Schedule. The difference, however, was that in the Individual Slip, religion was recorded for every individual where as in the Household Schedule the religion returned by the head of the house hold alone was recorded. The data on religion presented in this paper are based on the Household Schedule and essentially, therefore, represent the household population classified by the religion of the head of the household except in res-· peet of institutional households for which the religion returned by each inmate of the institutions in the Individual Slip has been taken into account. The reader should, therefore, bear this in mind while making a comparison with the 1971 religion data which is based on the Individual Slip returns. We are grateful to Shri P. Padmanabha, the ex-Registrar General & Census Commissioner for India. Shri V. S. Verma. the present Re.t;istrar General & Census Commissioner for India. and Shri V. P. Pandey. Joint Registrar General, India for their valuable guidance in the presentation of this volume. We are also thankful to Shri N. Rama Rao, Assistant Registrar .General and Shri Madan Singh, Senior Research Officer for scrutiny of the data and its uniform presen tation. Shri I .C. Srivastava, the ex-Director of Census Operations under whose able guidance the entire operations were carried out in the State, deserves aJl credit for the success of the operations and that he had to leave the organisation for taking up other important assignment in the State government before this volume could be made ready for the press. In the directorate, Shri R. C. Bhargava, Assistant Director, and his team of dedicated workers including Shri R. N. Venna, Senior Supervisor have labour ed hard in accomplishing th.: arduous task of checking the figures, compilation of the tables and the plreparation of notes for this Paper. Shri M. M. Goyal, Investigator, spared no pains to see the volume through press and to ensure its timely release. I hope this publication will be useful to the administrators, planners, research scholars and other data users. Jaipur S. R. LUHADIA November 1. 1985 Joint Director Census Operations, Rajasthan (iii) J\;IEMBERS OF 'l'HE STAFF ASSOCIATED WITH THts PUBLICATION Shri 1. P. Kateja Inves tigator Shri K. B. Sharma Statistical Assistant Sh, i M. L. Si::dhi Statistical Assistant Shrj v. D. Chandwani Statistical Assistant Shri Gop Raja Statistical Assistant Shri Hassan Mohd. Printing Inspector Shri O. P. Barlaya Computor Shri S. K. Aj ulcra Computur (iv) CONTENTS PAGES PREFACE (iii) INTRODUCTORy NOTE 1 NOTE ON TABLE HH-15-Household Population by Religion of Head of Household 17 TABLE HH-15-Household Population by Religion of Head of Household 18 NOTE 0;\1 APPENDICES AND ANNEXURE TO TAI3LE HH-15 105 APPENDIX A - D;!taiis of Religions huving population of 100 and above shown under 'Other Religions and Persuasions' in main Table HH-15-Religion 107 APPENDIX B -- Details of 'Other Religions and Persuasions' the strength each of which IS less than 100 at state level 110 APPENDIX D Urban Agglomeration extending over more than one tehsil. 119 ANNEXURE Ddails of sects/beliefs/religions clubbed with another religion which is shown at the head of the table in block letters . 123 (V) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Religion is an important and perhaps the basic cultural characteristic of the population. In il secular state like India several religions have thrived and every decennial census provides an interesting picture of the religious persuasions of the people. The data on religion yielded by the census arc of great interest to the public as well as to the scholars. At the census enumeration a variety of anSwers might have been provided to the Questions on religion, some spurious and some merely sects to a major religion. A census enumerator had instruc tions to record the religion as actually returned by a respondent. In the 1981 Census, question on religion was included in the Individual Slip filled in for every person and the Household Schedule filled in for a house hold. In Question No. 8 of the Individual Slip, the religion ot: the person enu merated was l'ecorded, as returned. In Question No, 2 of Part I of the House hold Schedule, the re1igion of the head of the household a~ returned was filled in. A household is defined for thel purpose of census as 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. Th_;re could be a household of persons related by blood or a household of unrelated persons, or a mix of both. Examples of unrelated household~ are boarding houses, messes, hostels, residential hotels, rescue homes, jails, ashrams etc. These are called institutional hou~eh()lds. In the case of institutional households the informa tion on religion of the head of the household was not collected in the Hous..chold Schedule. However, the information on religion df each inmate of the institu tional household was collected in the Individual Slip filled in by the enumerator for every person in the institutional household, The head of the household for census purposes is the person on whom the chief respomibility for the maintenance of the household falls. In the present paper the data on main religious communities as returned in Question 2 of the Household Schedule of the 1981 Census are being made avail able. In respect of the inmates of the institutional households, however, the data have been abstracted from the relevant Individual Slips as the Household Sche dule d.oes not provide data on religion in respect of the institutional households. In the present paper the data on religion are presented for state/ciistrictjtebsil/ U.A./city/town, Thus the data presented in this paper are based on (1) information on the religion of the head of the household in respect of normal households and the households of houscless population i.e, all households barring institutional households (2) information on the religion of each individual returned for Ques tion 8 of the Individual Slip in respect of individuals in the institutional house holds. The instructions to enumerators for filling up Question 2 on religion of the head of the household in the Household Schedule are given below :- "You have to record the religion of the head of the household as given hy him against this question. While writing the religion, you have to write the abbreviations as follows on the line against this question and not in any dotted boxes provided at the end of the dotted line against this question: For Buddhists write B For Christians write C For Hindus write H For Jains write J For Muslims write M For Sikhs write S 1 2 For 'Others' record actual religion as returned fully. If a person says that he has no religion, it may be recorded accordingly. Tf a person refuses to state hh religion you may write 'religion 110t stated'. You ~hould not enter into any argument with the household for filling up this question. You are bound to record. faithfully whatever religion is returned by the head of the household. For institutional households, put 'X' against this question'". The following are the main religious communities in the state as a whole. These are arranged in alphabetical order at state level: Religious Persons Males Females Sex ratio Community (Females per 1000 males) 1 2 3 4 5 Buddhists 4,427 2,317 2,110 911 Christians 39,568 19,879 19,689 990 Hindus 30,603.970 15,966,950 14,637,020 917 Jains 624,317 313,767 310,550 990 Muslims 2,492,145 1,287,827 1,204,318 935 Sikhs 492,818 260.906 231,912 889 The percentage of the popUlation ~ccounted for by each of these major religious cOpJmunitics in 1981 Census and the rate of decadal growth of popula tion during 1971-81 are given below at state level: Religious Percentage to DecadaJ growth rate Community total population Percentage 1971-81 1 2 3 Buddhists 0·01 +21' 55 Christians. 0'12 + 31· 01 Hindus 89·32 +32'52 Jains 1· 82 -t-21' 57 Muslims 7'28 +40'14 Sikhs 1·44 +44·44 The pattern of distribution of the population of these major reli~ious com munities between rural and urban areas is as follows :- Re\i.gious Rural P~rcentage Urban Percentage Community population to rural population to urban population population 1 2 3 4 5 Buddhists 1,874 0·01 2,553 0·04 Chris.tians 15,237 0·06 24,331 0·34 Hindus 24,965,065 92·29 5,638,905 78·20 Jatus 315,011 1·16 309,306 4'29 Muslims 1,323,006 4·89 1,169,139 16·2] Sikhs 428,878 1·58 63,940 Ii. ~. 0'89 ---,.. _.. --- 1 -111 R. G. India (N.D.~f85 3 For the convenience of the readers two statements glvmg religion data at various levels are also given in the following pages. Statcment-J shows the growth of six major religions, 'Other religions and persuasions' and 'religion not stated' during 1971-81 for the state ot R.ljaqhan and its districts.

Load more