2 Urbanisation, Schemes & Missions · 2.1 Urbanisation and census definitions

2.1.3 Census household and workforce concepts and functional classification of towns

The Census counts people by household and classifies their work as main or marginal across four categories, and planners use this occupational data both to define census towns and to classify towns by their dominant function.

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Key terms

  • household
  • common kitchen
  • census house
  • institutional household
  • main worker
  • marginal worker
  • work participation rate
  • cultivators
  • agricultural labourers
  • household industry
  • other workers
  • functional classification
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