census_1971: Census 1971 Primary Census Abstract

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Census 1971 Primary Census Abstract

Description

State and district population from the 1971 Census with rural/urban breakdown and SC/ST populations.

Usage

census_1971

Format

A tibble with 370 rows and 21 columns:

year

Census year (1971)

geography

Geographic level: "state" or "district"

state

Name of the state

state_name_harmonized

Harmonized state name for joining across datasets

name

Name of the state or district

area_km2

Area in square kilometers

population_total

Total population

population_rural

Rural population

population_urban

Urban population

males_total

Total male population

males_rural

Rural male population

males_urban

Urban male population

females_total

Total female population

females_rural

Rural female population

females_urban

Urban female population

sc_population_total

Total Scheduled Caste population

sc_population_rural

Rural Scheduled Caste population

sc_population_urban

Urban Scheduled Caste population

st_population_total

Total Scheduled Tribe population

st_population_rural

Rural Scheduled Tribe population

st_population_urban

Urban Scheduled Tribe population

Known defects

Population, males and females partition exactly into rural and urban. The SC/ST columns do not: one sc_population row and five st_population rows fail rural + urban == total, the largest gaps being 493,272 (Hooghly, SC) and 472,910 (Jhabua, ST). District coverage is also short of the state total for Mysore and Tamil Nadu.

Source

Jolad, Shivakumar and Singh, Madhav (2026). "Indian Census Data Collection, 1901-2026: Digitised Subnational Population and Administrative Datasets." Harvard Dataverse. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.7910/DVN/ON8CP8")}.

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