Demography, Sources of Population Data and Census

Things to remember

•  The word 'Demography' is derived from the two Greek words 'Demos' and 'Graphy'. The word Demos means people and Graphy mean to write and to study.
• Social Demography explains the issues of population studies by relating with the social and economic aspects.
• In primary sources, the data are collected directly from the field observation or households by using various data collection tools like questionnaire, observation, interview, etc.
• Census simply means the counting of people of a certain area at a certain time.
•  The modern and orderly census was first started in New France and Acadia in 1665 AD. 
• In Nepal, the first census was conducted in 1911 AD. 
• The Census is conducted by most of the countries of the world under the guideline of UN.