The government, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) on Thursday has announced that Census 2027 will be done in two phases. The first phase called house-listing operations, will conducted between April 1 and September 30 this year, for 30 days in each State and Union Territory. During this phase, census workers will visit homes will be put to citizens 33 simple questions about the house and household. The 33 questions include:
- Building number (municipal or local authority or Census number)
- Census house number
- Predominant material of floor of the Census house
- Predominant material of wall of the Census house
- Predominant material of roof of the Census house
- Use of Census house
- Condition of the Census house
- Household number
- Total number of persons normally residing in the household
- Name of the head of the household
- Sex of the head of the household
- Whether the head of the household belongs to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other
- Ownership status
- Number of dwelling rooms exclusively in possession of the household
- Number of married couple(s) living in the household
- The main source of drinking water
- Availability of drinking water source
- Main source of lighting
- Access to latrine
- Type of latrine
- Waste water outlet
- Availability of bathing facility
- Availability of kitchen and LPG/PNG connection
- Main fuel used for cooking
- Radio/transistor
- Television
- Access to Internet
- Laptop/computer
- Telephone/mobile phone/smartphone
- Bicycle/scooter/motorcycle/moped
- Car/jeep/van
- Main cereal consumed in the household
- Mobile number (for Census-related communications only).
The second phase, which will count the population that will be conducted in February 2027.
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