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Census town · Census 2011 · code 346431
Basantia population. Households, literacy and work.
A detailed town profile in West Bengal, using the original Primary Census Abstract. Every figure on this page belongs to the source’s 2011 population and geography.
Historical geographic unit. Census 2011 town boundary and classification. The primary total is the single published town row. This is not a present-day population or an urban-agglomeration total.
The source records 1,002 households and 5,455 residents. These household and person counts are separate measures.
Children aged 0–6 accounted for 12.83% of residents. This historical age group helps describe the age structure in 2011; it does not measure today’s children.
Male literacy was 85.17% and female literacy was 71.99%, each calculated among the corresponding population aged 7 and above.
Of 1,844 Census workers, 53.47% were main workers. Census work includes more than salaried employment.
What kinds of work were recorded?
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Economic activity
Main workers
Marginal workers
Cultivators
41
16
Agricultural labourers
227
193
Household industry workers
80
128
Other workers
638
521
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.
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Definitions, calculation methods and source access
Literacy uses people aged 7 and above; work participation uses all residents. Main workers worked at least six months. Households are the PCA household count, not houses. Rates with zero denominators are unavailable. Names and boundaries belong to Census 2011.
The main profile combines the selected, non-overlapping components. A municipal-core row and its wider row including outgrowths are not added together.