India Population and Housing Census 2011
General Info
Original or alternative title
Census of India 2011
Coverage type
Country
Time period covered
February, 2011 - March, 2011
Data type
Census:
Household - Individual - Interview - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative - Urban-rural representative
Summary
The 2011 India Census included questions on number of children, mode of transportation to work, languages, caste, occupations, and employment. The total population at the time of the census was 1,210,569,573, including 587,447,730 females and 623,121,843 males.
Keywords
Agriculture, Assets, Birth place, Cooking fuels, Disability, Domestic migration, Education, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Hearing loss, Household air pollution, Household water treatment, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Idiopathic intellectual disability, International migration, Internet, Languages, Lighting, Literacy, Live births, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mortality, Population, Religion, Sanitation, School enrollment, Summary birth history, Telephones, Transportation, Vision loss, Water supply
Citation
Publication year
2012
Suggested citation
Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (India). India Population and Housing Census 2011. New Delhi, India: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (India), 2012.