NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Census of India 2011 Provider Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (India)Tabulations only Geography India (IND) Coverage type Country Time period covered 02/2011 - 03/2011 Data type Census: HouseholdIndividualInterviewNationally representativeSubnationally representativeUrban-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 Contributors Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (India) Publisher Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner (India) 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. GHDx Entry last modified on: Mar 25, 2022