CENSUS 2011

• 15th Census of India and 7th census of Independent India.
• The slogan of census 2011 was ‘Our Census, Our future’.
• C. Chandramouli was the Census Commissioner of India 2011.

• Census of India 2011 was conducted in two stages:
• House listing & Housing Census: (April to September 2010) - Involved collection of information about all buildings and also Information for National Population Register(NPR)
• Population Enumeration: (9th to 28 February 2011).

• Census has been conducted in India since 1872 and 2011 marks the first time biometric information was collected. 
• Information on castes was included in the census i.e. SECC 2011
• There is only one instance of a caste-count in post-independence India. It was conducted in Kerala in 1968 by the Communist government under E M S Namboodiripad to assess the social and economic backwardness of various lower castes. The census was termed Socio-Economic Survey of 1968 and the results were published in the Gazetteer of Kerala, 1971

Topic	2001	2011
Population	X	X + 181 million = 1210.19 Million Male - 51.54% Female - 48.46%
Most Populous State		UP>Maharashtra>Bihar>WB>Andhra
Least Populous State		Lakshadweep>D&D>Dadra & Nag.Hav. > A&N> Sikkim
Density Of Population	Total - 325	Total - 382 Highest - Delhi (11297) Lowest - Arunachal Pradesh (17)
Sex Ratio (Females per 1000 Males)	Total - 933 Child - 927	Total - 940 Highest(state) - Kerala (1084) Lowest(UT) - Daman & Diu (618) Child (0-6 years) - 914 Highest Child (0-6 years) - Mizoram (971) Lowest Child (0-6 years) - Haryana (830)
Literacy Rate	Total - 65% Male - 75% Female - 53.6%	Total - 74% Male - 82.14% Female - 65.46% Highest state - Kerala (93.11 %) Lowest state - Bihar (63.82%)
Most populous District of India		Thane
Religious Population		Hindu>Muslim>Christian>Sikh>Buddhist>Jaina
Rural Population		Highest - UP Lowest - Lakshadweep Lowest in state - Sikkim
Urban Population		Highest - Maharashtra Lowest - Lakshadweep Lowest in state - Sikkim
Decadal Growth %		Lowest - Nagaland (-0.5) Highest - Dadar and Nagar  Haveli (55.5%)
Area		Lowest - Lakshadweep (32km2) Highest - Rajasthan ( 3.42 Thousand km2)

Literacy

Any one >7 who can read and write in any language with an ability to understand was considered a literate. In censuses before 1991, children below the age 5 were treated as illiterates. The literacy rate taking the entire population into account is termed as "crude literacy rate", and taking the population from age 7 and above into account is termed as "effective literacy rate".

2001-2011 is the first decade (with the exception of 1911- 1921) which has actually added lesser population compared to the previous decade.

Three major States (J&K, Bihar & Gujarat) have shown decline in Sex Ratio as compared to Census 2001.