South Twenty Four Parganas population.
Households, literacy and work.

What stands out in this profile?

• The source records 1,781,221 households and 8,161,961 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
• Urban residents accounted for 25.58% of this area’s population, compared with 74.42% in rural areas.
• Children aged 0–6 accounted for 12.57% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
• Male literacy was 83.35% and female literacy was 71.4%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
• Of 2,964,494 Census workers, 67.59% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.

What kinds of work were recorded?

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Cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers are separate Census activity categories. A worker count is not a count of employees on a company payroll.

Using the profile in research

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