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Comprehensive information for Census 2021
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- Census 2021 will for the first time seek information from households on smartphones, DTH/Cable TV connection, internet access, number of members of households having bank accounts, ownership of house other than the rented accommodation of a household, bottled water availability and mobile number as part of the house listing procedure.
- The Census 2021 house listing questionnaire will no longer seek a breakup of male and female persons in a household.
- Importantly it will not collect caste data and will have a listing for third gender.
- Another fresh inclusion mainly pertains to new categories of disabilities as per the latest definition.
- The data collected during the 2021 Census will be stored electronically, the first time since the decennial exercise was conducted in 1951 in Independent India.
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