By Japan K Pathak
Ahmedabad

Union Ministers today announced Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 rural ata in a press conference in Delhi. Here are the Gujarat part of details of the census report announced today:

Gujarat
Data summary

11631116 total rural household

26 number of districts

225 number of talukas

18646 number of gram panchayat/police station

18403 number of villager rural

195 number of towns Urban

6922567 total number of rural household

4708549 total number of urban households

59.52% % of households in rural

40.48% % of households in urban

Gujarat

Type of households

6895149 normal household rural

4684434 normal household urban

21505 institutional households rural

13603 institutional households urban

5885 houseless rural

10478 houseless urban

5728 houseless with shelter urban

4750 houseless without shelter rural

99.60% normal rural

99.49% normal urban

0.31% institutional rural

0.29% institutional urban

0.09% houseless rural

0.22% houseless urban

0.12% houseless with shelter urban

0.10% houseless without shelter urban

Gujarat
Gender profile(rural)

Total households 6922567

Total population 34546108

Male 17890404

Female 16650718

Transgender 4386

Never married 14158422

Never married% 40.98

Currently married 14979740

Currently married% 43.36

Widowed 1290781

Widowed% 3.74

Separated 98040

Separated% 0.28

Divorced 100644

Divorced% 0.29

Average household size 4.99

Male headed households 6180294

% Male header households 89.28%

Women headed households 741166

%Women headed households 10.71%

Gujarat
Education profile(rural)

Total population 34546108

Number of illiterates 10713738

% number of illiterates 31.01%

Number of literates but below primary 4491907

% of literate but below primary13.00%

Primary 9669866

% primary 27.99%

Middle 3147851 or 9.11%

Secondary 3685425 or 10.67%

Higher Secondary 1646831 or 4.77%

Graduate or higher 938392 or 2.72%

Other 251929 or 0.73%

Gujarat
Disability profile(rural)

34546108 total population

82156 seeing 0.24%

44324 hearing 0.13%

32650 speech 0.09%

122925 movement 0.36%

33613 mental retardation 0.10%

24507 mental illness 0.07%

34281 other disability 0.10%

38546 multiple disability 0.11%

34123881 not disabled 98.78%

Gujarat
Caste profile(rural)

6922567 total households

433063 SC households 6.26%

1484522 ST households 21.44%

4752722 number of other households 68.66%

252176 number of no caste & tribe households 3.64%

Gujarat
Housing dwelling type(rural)

6922567 total households

6484880 number of householders

93.68% % of owned householders

324937 number of rented hh

4.69% % of rented hh

106420 number of any others hhs

1.54% % of any others hhs

2570169 1 room

3043720 2 rooms

894729 3 rooms

387256 more than 3 rooms

763385 grass thatch bamboo etc

52509 plastic polythene

1978542 mud/unburnt brick

82176 wood

216780 stone not packed with mortar

3093392 total kuchcha type houses

44.69% % of kuchcha type houses

449091 stone packed with mortar

42008 GI/metal/asbestos sheets

2941160 burnt brick

356448 concrete

34580 any other

3823287 total pucca type households

55.23% % of pucca type households

Gujarat
Employment and income

6922567 total households

662602 number of households with salaried job 9.57 %

239953 government sector job 3.47%

74826 public sector job 1.08%

348359 private sector job 5.03%

303995 households that pay Income Tax of Professional Tax

558770 households own/operate an enterprise registered with govt

4753335 less than Rs 5,000/month 68.66%

1506267 between 5,000-10,000/month 21.76%

662461 Rs 10,000 or more 9.57%

Gujarat
Main source of income(rural)

6922567 total households

2844288 cultivation 41.09%

2996225 manual casual labour 43.28%

89397 part time or full time domestic service 1.29%

9207 foraging rag picking 0.13%

172367 non-agricultural own account enterprise 2.49%

23474 begging/charity/alms collection 0.34%

787459 others 11.38%

Gujarat
Asset ownership(rural)

6922567 total households

1120847 refrigerator 16.19%

59111 landline only 0.85%

4903542 mobile only 70.83%

174217 landline and mobile both 2.52%

2108123 motorized two/three/four wheelers or motorized fishing boat requiring registration 30.45%

Gujarat
Land ownership(rural)

6922567 total households

35940147.06 total land

3090937 households with land 45%

3831589 households with no land 55%

18770479.52 total un-irrigated land in acres 52%

11854722.26 with assured irrigation for two crops(acres) 33%

5314945.28 other irrigated land(acres) 15%

560230 households owining mechanized 3/4 wheeler agri equipment 8.09%

943371 household irrigation equipment(including diesel-kerosene/electric pumpset, sprinkler/drip irrigation system) 13.63%

175338 households kisan credit card with credit limit of Rs 50,000 or above 2.53%

Govt statement:

Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and Minister Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation, Shri Chaudhary Birendra Singh, today jointly released on-line the provisional data from the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 for Rural India. The Report of the SECC 2011 is available on http://secc.gov.in. The management of the Central data base is with the NIC.

SECC 2011 is a unique paperless Census. The enumeration of the data was done using over 6.4 lakh electronic handheld device. Household data was taken from the National Population Register along with the Temporary Identification Number (TIN). At each stage there was an opportunity for transparency and grievance redressal. A total of 1.24 crore claims and objections were received of which 99.7% have already been resolved. Gram Panchayats and Gram Sabhas were involved in this process, besides School Teachers and Data Entry Operators as enumerators. The districts and State Governments have carried out the SECC with the Ministry of Rural Development as the nodal Ministry. Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation carried out the survey in urban areas and the Registrar General, Census of India carried out the caste census.

The provisional socio-economic data for Rural India has been released today. The survey has been completed in all the 640 districts. It is provisional as the final lists are being uploaded in some districts after addressing all the objections received. It is being released as its use in evidence based planning for rural development and poverty reduction needs to be undertaken immediately. It provides very useful data on households regarding various aspects of their socio-economic status – housing, land-holding/landlessness, educational status, status of women, the differently able, occupation, possession of assets, SC/ST households, incomes, etc. SECC provided for automatic exclusion on the basis of 14 parameters, automatic inclusion on the basis of 5 parameters and grading of deprivation on the basis of seven criteria. The data addresses the multi dimensionality of poverty and provides a unique opportunity for a convergent, evidence based planning with a Gram Panchayat as a unit. The data is an opportunity to make evidence based selection, prioritization and targeting of beneficiaries in different programmes.

The Ministry of Rural Development has taken a decision to use the SECC data in all its programmes. SECC data would have meaningful use in Housing for all, Education and Skills thrust, MGNREGA, National Food Security Act, interventions for differently able, interventions for women led households, and targeting of households/individual entitlements on evidence of deprivation, etc. The household data is also available for planners of programmes at State, district, Block, Gram Panchayat and village level. SECC provides an opportunity to simultaneously address the multi-dimensionality of poverty by addressing the deprivation of households in education, skills, housing, employment, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, social and gender mobilization and entitlement. The use of the NPR TIN Number across programmes affords an opportunity to track the progress of households over the years. SECC truly makes evidence based targeted household interventions for poverty reduction possible. It paves the way for a Mission Antyodaya to work simultaneously in addressing the poverty of households through a Gram Panchayat Poverty Reduction Plan. The Ministry of Rural Development, in consultation with States, is trying to implement a convergent, integrated poverty reduction plan with Gram Panchayats and deprived households as priority.

– DeshGujarat