District Census Handbook, Rajkot, Part X-C-II, Series-5
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CENSUS 1971 PART X-C-II (with oft PliRts of Part X-C-I) ANALYTICAL REPORT ON CENSUS AND RELATED STATISTICS SOCIO-ECONOMIC & SERIES - 5 CULTURAL TABLES GUJARAT (RURAL AREAS) AND HOUSING TABLES DISTRICT RAJKOT CENSUS DISTRICT HANDBOOK C. c. DOCTOR of the Indian Administrative Service Director of Census Operations Gujarat . Y-331(}..(ij CENSUS OF INDIA, 1971 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Census of India 1971-Series-5-Gujarat is being published in the follow ing parts: Central Government Publications Subject covered Part Number I-A General Report I-B Detailed Analysis of the Demographic, Social, Cultural and Migra tion Patterns I-C Subsidiary Tables II-A General Population Tables ('A' Series) II-B Economic Tables ('B' Series) II-C (i) Distribution of Population, Mother Tongue and Religion, Sche duled Castes and Scheduled Tribes I1-C (ii) Other Social and Cultural Tables and Fertility Tables, Tables on Household Composition, Single Year Age, Marital Status, Educational Levels, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, etc., Bilingualism III Establishments Report and Tables ('E' Series) IV-A Housing Report and Housing Subsidiary Tables IV-B Housing Tables V Special Tables and Ethnographic Notes on Scheduled Castes and} Scheduled Tribes VI-A Town Directory VI-B ~pecial Survey Report on Selected Towns VI-C Survey Report on Selected Villages VII Special Report on Graduate and Technical Personnel I VIII-A Administration R~port-Enumeration 1For Official use only. VIII-B Administration Report-Tabulation J IX Census Atlas State Government Publications DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK X-A Town and Village Directory X-B Village and Townwise Primary Census Abstract X-C-I Departmental Statistics and Full Count Census Tables X-C-II Analytical Report on Census and Related Statistics, Socio Econo mic and Cultural Tables (Rural Areas) and Housing Tables X-C-II (Supplement) Urban sample tables II CONTENTS PAGES PREFAOE i - ii I A~ALYTICAL REPORT ON CENSUS AND RELATED STATISTICS A. INTRODUOTION 3-10 (1) History of District Oensus Handbook, (2) Scope of District Oensus Handbook, (3) Definitions and Ooncepts. B. LOOATION A..."'iD PHYSICAL FEATURES 10-12 (1) Location, (2) Physiography, (3) Soils, (4) Forests, (5) Minerals (6) Rivers, (7) Lakes, (8) Climate, Temperature and Rainfall. c. ADML.~ISTRATIVE SET-UP 12-19 (1) Administrative Divisions, (2) Revenue, (3) Parliamentary and Assembly Constituenciys and Elections, (4) Judiciary. (5) Police, (6) Jails, (7) Local SelL Government. D. TERRITORIAL AND OTHER CHA...~GES 19-20 (1) Growth or Decay of Urban Centres, (2) Ohanges in the Functional Category of Towns. E. MAJOR EVENTS 20 (1) Famine and Scarcity. F. EOONOMIC AND OTHER AOTIVITIES DURING THE DECADE 20-39 (1) Agriculture, (2) Irrigation, (3) Agricultural Produce Markets, (4) Co-operation, (5) Warehouses, (6) Livestock and Animal Husbandry, (7) Fisheries, (8) Industries, (9) Trade and Oommerce, (10) Electricity and Power, (11) Transport and Oommunications, (12) Prices, (13) Joint Stock Companies, (14) Banking, (15) Insurance, (16) Education, (17) Medical and Public Health, (IS) Agrarian Reforms and Agrarian Developments. G. DEMOGRAPHIC OHANGES DURING THE DEOADE 40-58 (1) General, (2) Density and Decadal changes in Population, (:3) Sex Ratio, (4) Household Size, (5) Urban Population, (6) Houseless Population, (7) Institutional Population, (8) Growth of Population, (9) Average Size of Village, (10) Popu., lation by Age and Sex, (11) Literacy, (12) Mother Tongue, (13) Religion, (14) Workers and Non-workers, (1.5) Schedu. led Oastes, (16) Scheduled Tribes, (17) Establishments, (IS) Housing. H. SETTLEMENT PATTERN AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY (including tables) 59-89 (I) Rural Areas, (2) Urban Areas. H.I Distribution of villages with reference to area in hectares 63-65 H.2 Distribution of inhabited villages by selected amenities. infrastructurd.l and land use data with reference to 66-71 distance from nearest town H.:3 Distribution of inhabited ,-ilh1ges by selected demographic characteristics and distance frollll!nearest town 72-77 HA Average size of villages by distance range from nearrst t.own by size class 7S H.!) Distribution of inhabited villages by ,ize class of populittion having selected servicing institutions and 7S-S0 demographio characteristics 2 H.6 "Medical and Postal faoilities per 100 km of rural ~rca at taluka level SI 2 H.7 DistnbutiOD of villages by denSity per km and avera!l;e distance from nearest town SI-82 H.S Distribution of inhabited villages by proportion of scheduld r.aste~ and schedule:l tribes popul.1tion and 83 density of population H.9 Ranking of villages of different size olasses by amenity scores. 81-85 H.I0 Selected demographic characteristics in towns by size class of population S5-S6 H.ll Selected demographic characteristics by density of population of towns 86 III PAGES H.12 Distribution of towns by size class of population and functional category 87 H.13 Functional category and growth rate of towns 87 H.14 Female workers as percentage of total female population in towns by size class of population 87 H.15 Per capita Receipt and Expenditure of local bodies in town. by size class of population S H.16 Per capita Receipt and Expenditure of local bodies in old and new towns 8 H.18 Per capita Receipt and Expenditure of local bodies in towns by functional category 9 H.19 Educational and Medical facilities per 1,000 population ill towns by size class of population 89 H.20 Medical facilities in town" by functional category 89 II TABLES SECTION-I DEPARTMENTAL STATISTICS 1-54 (Detailed contents are given on pages hi and iv in Part·II Tables.) SECTION-II CENSUS TABLES BASED ON FULL COUNT 55-182 (Detailed contents are given on pages v and vi in Part II Tables.) SECTION-III SOCIO ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TABLES (RURAL AREAS) AND HOUSING TABLES 183-236 Explanatory note to Sample Census Tables 185 B - Economic Tables Note 186-li7 Table B-III part-B Classification of workers and non·workers according to main activity.by educational levels in rural areas 188-189 only Table B-IV Part-A lndustrial classification of persons at work other than at cultivation as main activity by sex and divi 190-193 sions, major groups and minor groups (Rural) Appendix -Distribution of workers in manufacturing, processing. servicing and, repairs by household industry and non· 194-196 household industry (Rural) Table B-VI part-B (i) Occupational classification of persons at work according to main activity other than cultivation 197-207 by sex and age groups in rural areas only 208-209 ANNEXURE -National Classification of OccupatioII8 Table B-VI Part-B (ii) Occupational claBSification of persons at work according to main activity other than cultivation 210-215 classified by sex and educational levels in rural areas only Table B-VII Secondary work i.e. Persons having main activity (i) Cultivators, (ii) Agricultural labourers, (iii) Household 216 industry, (iv) non-household industry and (v) non-workers classified by sex and by secondary work (i) household indu· stry, (ii) cultivator. (iii) agricultural ~abourer, or (iv) non· household indultry, trade. bmriness or service (Rllral.) 'fable B-VIII Persons chtBsified as non·workers according to main activity cross-classified by sex. age groups and type of 216 activity (Rural) C - Social and Cultural TaWts Note 217 Table C-II Age and Marital Status 218-219 Table C-III Part-A Age. Sex and Education in Rural area~ 218-219 D - Migration Tables Note 221 Table D-I Population classified by place of birth (Rural) 222-223 Appendix-I Persons born in other district of the State and enumerated in this district 224 Appendix-II Persons born in this district but enumerated in other district of the State 225 'fable D-VI :'tfigrants classified by place of htst re~idence, age group, duration of residence and marital status (Rural) 226-231 H-Housing Tables Note 233 'fable H_I Census Houses and the uses to which they are put 234 'fable H-II Distribution of Census Houses by predominant material of wall an,d pledom;nant material of roof 234 Appendix-Distribution of residential Census Houdes by material of wall cross classified by material of roof 235 'fa1:fle H-III Census Household cla8~ified by number of member!! and by numbtr of rooms occupied 236 l'able H-IV Household cl!l8sified by size and tennre status 236 1\' PREFACE The District Census Hand Book Volumes of 1971 The analysis of whatever data was available to us, were divided into three parts. Part A contained the was completed at the time I was about to leave the town and village directories and B contained the Urban Census Organisation in March 1974. But the task was Block and villag~wise Primary Census abstracts. These incomplete. It had to be supplemented by additional two parts were brought out within a record time of analysis of further data as and when it became available one year after the taking of the Census. Part C-I after the sample tables were compiled. The Census containing the departmental statistics and the full count Organisation was also being slowly wound up at this Census tables was also published within six months of stage, and it was posing a very serious problem in my the first publications named above. mind as to how the work already done could be well rounded and properly supplemented after I had left The sample tables took a little longer time, as the and the organisation shrunk to the intercensal level. mechanical data processing for urban areas, which was Shri P. B. Buch, Director of the Bureau of Economics first to be done at the national level could not be and Statistics came to my rescue at this stage and completed untiII the tables for all the States were recei promised to take over the loose threads and weave them ved, checked and cleared by the Registrar General, into a strong and fine yam from the moment the want India.