~~ CENSUS OF INDIA 1981 SERIES-20 TAMIL NADU PART VII TABLES ON HOUSES AND DISABLED POPULATION A. P. MUTHUSWAMI OF THE INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE DIRECTOR OF CENSUS OPERATIONS TAMIL NADU CENSUS OF INDIA SERIES 20-TAMIL NADU PUBLICATION PROGRAMME \·t// ParN~A AdministraAion Report Enumeration .... , '. } For Official Use only . Part I-B Administration Rep()ft Tabulation "'Part [I-A General Population Tables. "'Part II-B Primary Census Abstract. Part TU-A General Economic Tables_ Part III-B General Economic Tables. Part IV-A Social and Cullural Tables. Part IV-B Social a.nd Cultural Table~. Part V-A Migration Tables. Part V-B Migration Tables. Part VI-A Fertility Tables. Part Vl-n Fertility Tables. tPart VII Tables on Houses and Disabled Population. Pan VIII-A Household Tables. Pan VIII-B Household Tables. PaTt VIII-C Report on Households. Part IX Special Tables on Scheduled Casts and Scheduled Tribes. Part X-A Town Director) (State Volume). PHt X-B Survey Reports on Selected Towns. Part X-C Survey Report on Selected Villages_ PaTt Xl Ethnographic notes and Special Studies on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Part XU Census Atlas. Pan XIII District Census Handbooks. Part A: Village and Town DireclOry. Par( B: Vtllage and Town-wise Primary Census Abstrac(. tPresent volume. 'Already printed. (ii) PREFACE A detailed report on houses along with certain tables compiled out of the data gathered during the 'Houselisting' operations is brought out since 1961 by the Cen­ sus Organisation. As in the past, this preliminary operation of 'Houselisting' was conducted in Tamil Nadu in advance of the actua11981 Census. The field work of tml'; operation took pJace during July-August, 1980 at which time the schedules 'Houselist' and 'Enttrprise Ust' were canvassed. The Houselist sche­ dule has been considerably l>implified this time with fewer questions because of the simultaneous canvassing of an additional detailed questionnaire on enterprises, as part of the Economic Census conducted periodically. The 'Enterprise List' was canvassed by Census Organisatjon on behalf of the Central Statistical Organisation. In the 1971 Census, the Housing Report and Tables dealt with a variety­ of information, like uses of houses, walljroofmaterial of houses, households by num­ ber of living rooms occupied, tenure status of households and household size. The pr<;:sent volume, hO'NeVel, d.:als with only two aspects, viz., use of Census houses and data on three types of physically disabled persons. Apart from the uses of census hou:.es ddailed information about the cons­ truction mat6rial of houses facilities avallable in the households and certain other pal'ticulals about households have been gathered through 'Household Schedule'. Unlike in the plevious census the above information were collected dUling the main census. These: data will be published in a separate volume i.e. in part VIll­ A & B "Household Tables". Data on handicapped persons have been gathered during this Census after a lapse of five dech.des as such data were gathered during the 1931 Censu~. The three types of disabilIties about which information have been gathered are totally blind, totally crippled ana totally dumb. As early as 1977, when draft questionnahes were beili!; prepared, the Registrar General, India received requel'.t from the Mini&try of Education and Social Welfare, Government of India that data on physical dis­ aoilities should be collected through the Census, in the context Ol the proclamation of the yea! 1981 as the 'International Year for th~ disabled persons' by the United Nations at its 3 ht session. Besides, it was felt that the data relating, to physically handicapped persons would be of immenSe use to Gavel nmental and voluntalY organisations fer formuia.tinp; soda1 security measures for the disabled persons. The repclt analy&ing the data flom the two Tables H-I and H-2 is presented. in this volume <ilong with an introdn~tory note on the Honselisling, opelation and this is followed by the tc!bles. (iii) (iv) My grateful thanks are due to Shri P. Padml-mabha, Registrar General, India, whose excellent guidance has enabled us to complete this ploject. I also thank the other officers of the Registrar General"s office who hdped us in the prepamtion of the two tables in this volume and in patticular the officers of the Data Processing Divi"ion for generating th(;' computt:rised Table H-I. I acknow ledgt the services of Shri N. Rama Rao, now AssIstant Re.\;llitrar Ge-neJal, India and formerly Deputy Director of Census Operatiom in Madras, who helped me much in the conduct of the Houselisting work and in the processing of the schedules. The table on disabled population was prepared at our office under the super_ vision of Shri A.V. Vallinathan, Assistant Dire(;tor. He was assisted by Shri M. Thangavelu, Shri S. Ranganathan and Shri T.R. Krishnan, Statistical Ass.istants. This table was prepared manually with the help of the fixed-pay staff, appointed for this purpose. The draft report for this volume was prepaled by Shri R. Narayanan, ASSIstant Director under the able guidance of Shri M. Thanga­ raJu, Deputy Director of Census Operations and 1 must acknowledge the good work done by them. \ The other officjals who helped in the preparation and checking of tables contained in the report are Smt. M.V. Rajalakshmi, Tabulation Officer, K. Madhavan, Smt. G. Vasantha and Smt M.e. Vijayalakshmi, Computers. The maps chdrts included in this book have been prepared by the Cartography Sec­ tion headed by Shri Jogesh Das, Senior Geographer, assisted by Shri A. Rajamani, Senior Artist, Shri N. Chandran, Artist and Shri M. Kothandaraman, Hand PR"SS Machine Operator. I wish to acknowledge the 3.ble servicLS of the above officials in the preproration afthis volume. I must also thank Shri V. Narasimhan, Manager and S iShri S. Ranganathan and K. A. Sivasubramanian, Assistant Managers and other Officers of the Government of India Press, Coimbatore who envinced much interest in the printing I.J this volume. I trust the volume will be found useful by te:o.earchers, planners, Government DepaJtments and other data users. MADRAS A.P. MUTHUSW AMI Augtis t ] 983 Direcio;' of Census Operations Tamil Nadu CONTENTS PAGES Preface (iii) REPORT Chapter I-Introduction. Chapter 2-Census Heuses Bnd the uses te which they are put 12 Chapter 3-Disa.bled Population 32 Chapter 4 -Conclusion 40 TABLES Table H-I-Census Houses and the uses to which they are put 43 Table H-2-Disabled Population by type of Disat>iJity 49 APPENDICES Appendix I -Instructions to Enumeraton for filling up the Houselist 77 Appendix II-Format of the Schedule 'Enterpri5e list' and (he 'EnLerprise list Abstract' 111 Appendix III-List of Urba.n Agglomeration and their contsituent units in Tamil Nadu, 1981 113 Appendix IV-Edit instructions for the scrutiny of the Housclist and Instructions fOr the selection of 20 % sample of Houses . , , . , . 116 Appendix V-Instructions for Edi(;ng and Coding of HouseHst 12l Appendix VI-Sample design and precision of estimates 123 MAPS AND CHARTS Facing Page (i) Administrative divisions 1981 (ii) Census Houses according to their uses 18 (iii) Proportion of mixed dwellings and non-dwe ing houses by categories for urban agglomerations having more than 5 lakh population 19 (iv) Distribution of 100() Census Houses ustd as mixed dwellings and nOil-dwellings 22 (v) Percentage of Census Houses used as mixed dwellings and non-dwellings ill Tamil Nadu 23 (vi) Distribution of Census Houses in d:tferent uses among Rural and Urban areas 30 (vii) Proportion of Disabled population by three categories 34 (viii) Percentage distribution of totally Blind in Tami! Nadu among the district 35 (ix) Pcrcc-ntage distribution of totally Crippled in Tamll Nadu among the dist;ict 34 (X) PtrCell~2gt: distribution of totally Dumb ill Tc_mil Nadu am/Jng the d;stric(, 35 (xi) Distribution of Disabled popUlation by Categories in Class I Cities/Urban agglomeralions 38 (v) n' ,.' ,,' TAMILNADU ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS 1931 BAY o~ B~NGAL 10 g' N D N o c A N .' ,,' '0' Boot<! UJIO<' s~.; I~';;e I1wwlth t1~ pe<roi""",,oF tho s...-.,.,.,., G~,._I .. fr,..j" Thot\8r1'rui _ .... "f InoIO."tU ..... ,~t .. I\,e_'b:l' ~,"""t!.J tweI,,~ .....utJ(.!I""I..._"l1!d'f""", tb"':'Pi><"I>".tfJl'4o I,,,,, ~l,;li"tFoo:tke~r:I~[~irl""" ...tllthepoh:i" CHAPTER iNTRODUCTION Houselisting-part of CenslIs ,;:oPC) and utility or the Hou5clisting operations have been' considerably cxpandl'd ,J11c1 a variety of data on Th" census of population has been defined as the housillg conditions wc:re collected, At the 1971 census "total proc~ss of collecting. compiling and publisbing also. iHouse'istlllg operation WDS usd to c()!1e:t va]u­ dcmog~aphlc: economlc and social clata pertaining. at ~lbre (bta 011 housing cOJ:ditions, a ,pcclfiecl (Jm.c. to a][ person,. in a country", Census , therefore consIders demograp!llc and socio.economic ;Jspects of every _i1,Jdividual, hesJ:1ective of sex. age Dab: on Homing in Censuses llrior to 1961 or status. To faCIlItate a comoktc enumeration of In 1871 and 1891, details about tbc s~ructural cOn­ c:very man. woman and child. it is necessary to iden· dition of house~-whether tiled, thatched or terraced. tlfy ~ll hum~n, habita_tiuil, i.e .. all places where peo­ was collected, These were not gathered in 1881 and ple hve. ThIs IS preclselv what is d<me elUTing House­ 1?Ol censuses, In the 1911 c~nsus, data on industriali ~i~ting This operation i~ executed months ahead of eot8blishments engaging 20 persons (]f Jllore. and the {he census when all buildings.