South Goa population.
Households, literacy and work.

What stands out in this profile?

• The source records 151,845 households and 640,537 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
• Urban residents accounted for 64.59% of this area’s population, compared with 35.41% in rural areas.
• Children aged 0–6 accounted for 10.45% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
• Male literacy was 91.67% and female literacy was 83.47%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
• Of 249,590 Census workers, 82.78% 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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