Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceEconomicsPOPULATION3 Marks
Question
How can we understand the trend of population? How was census started in India?
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Answer
We can understand the trend of population of a region by studying, analyzing and interpreting demographic profile of population, size of population, population growth rate, birth-rate, death-rate, rural-urban population, proportion of female to male population, etc.
Jamshedji Tata initiated the first population census in $1871.$ After that, a census was conducted in $1891$ and thereafter it is done every $10$ years.
The first census of independent India was conducted in $1951.$
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