Transcription of POPULATION COMPOSITION - Registrar General and Census ...
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11 CHAPTER - 2 POPULATION COMPOSITION The data on POPULATION by age and sex is vital for demographers, health administrators etc. for planning and evaluation of various developmental and health programs. The classification of rural/urban, sex and marital status by age unveils the characteristics of POPULATION COMPOSITION and provides disaggregated data for target oriented projects. Being one of the most important demographic characteristics, data on age is collected and updated in both half-yearly surveys of SRS for all the members of the household covered in the sample units. As per available data from SRS, there has been a gradual decline in the share of POPULATION in the age group 0-14 from to per cent during 1971 to 1981 and to percent during 1991 to 2011, whereas, the proportion of economically active POPULATION (15-59 years) has increased from to percent during 1971 to 1981 and to per cent during 1991 to 2011.
The data on population by age and sex is vital for demographers, health administrators etc. for planning and evaluation of various developmental and health programs. The classification of rural/urban, sex and marital status by age unveils the characteristics of population composition and provides disaggregated data for target oriented ...
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