UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — The pressures of counting India
Q1. How many questions have been notified by the Government of India for Phase I (Houselisting and Housing) of Census 2027?
Q2. Census 2027 will be remembered as the FIRST Indian census to introduce which one of the following as its flagship structural innovation?
- A. Simultaneous conduct of a Socio-Economic Caste Census
- B. Mobile-app based digital data capture and web-based self-enumeration by households
- C. Use of a permanent statutory Census Act as its legal basis
- D. A two-phase enumeration design (Houselisting followed by Population Enumeration)
Q3. The conduct of Census 2027 derives its statutory authority and the powers of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India from which one of the following?
- A. The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008
- B. The Census Act, 1948
- C. Article 246 read with Entry 69 of the Union List directly, without an enabling statute
- D. The Statistical Services Act, 1980
Q4. Consider the following statements comparing Census 2027 with the Census of 2011:
1. Unlike Census 2011, Census 2027 will permit households to self-enumerate online through a web portal before the enumerator's visit.
2. Unlike Census 2011, Census 2027 has been planned as a two-phase exercise (Houselisting & Housing Census followed by Population Enumeration).
3. The reference moment for the Population Enumeration phase of Census 2027 is 1st March 2027, while that of Census 2011 was 1st March 2011.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- Unlike Census 2011, Census 2027 will permit households to self-enumerate online through a web portal before the enumerator's visit.
- Unlike Census 2011, Census 2027 has been planned as a two-phase exercise (Houselisting & Housing Census followed by Population Enumeration).
- The reference moment for the Population Enumeration phase of Census 2027 is 1st March 2027, while that of Census 2011 was 1st March 2011.
- A. 1 only
- B. 1 and 3 only
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3