Census 2027 first section to have 33 questions

The Registrar Basic and Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) on Thursday (January 22, 2026) notified 33 questions that residents must reply in the primary section of Census 2027, which will probably be carried out between April 1 and September 30.

Whereas the notification printed on January 7, 2020 for Census 2021, which was delayed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic and by no means took off, had 31 questions, the present notification has 33. The recent notification splits the mixed query on the kind of ground, wall and roof of the Census home into three distinct questions concerning the “predominant materials used within the ground, wall and roof” of the home.

In line with the federal government, this would be the first digital Census, the primary to rely caste and likewise the primary the place respondents will have the ability to self-enumerate by means of a yet-to-be introduced portal.

Inhabitants Enumeration (PE), the second section of Census 2027 the place caste will probably be enumerated, will probably be completed in February 2027. Questions are but to be notified for the section.

“The notification of questionnaire of Part I of Census of India 2027 – Houselisting & Housing Census has been issued. The questionnaire for Part II i.e. Inhabitants Enumeration will probably be notified sooner or later,” Census India posted on X.

The notification by the RG&CCI Mritunjay Kumar Narayan within the official gazette mentioned, “….that every one the Census Officers might, inside the limits of the native areas for which they’ve been respectively appointed, ask all such questions from all individuals on the objects enumerated beneath for accumulating data by means of the houselisting and housing census schedule in reference to the Census of India 2027.”

Census questions

The questions are: constructing quantity (municipal or native authority or Census quantity); Census home quantity; predominant materials of ground of the Census home; predominant materials of wall of the Census home; predominant materials of roof of the Census home; use of Census home; situation of the Census home; family quantity; whole variety of individuals usually residing within the family; title of the top of the family; intercourse of the top of the family; whether or not the top of the family belongs to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Different; possession standing; variety of dwelling rooms solely in possession of the family; variety of married couple(s) dwelling within the family; foremost supply of consuming water; availability of consuming water supply; foremost supply of lighting; entry to latrine; sort of latrine; waste water outlet; availability of bathing facility; availability of kitchen and LPG/PNG connection; foremost gasoline used for cooking; radio/transistor; tv; entry to Web; laptop computer/pc; phone/cell phone/smartphone; bicycle/scooter/motorbike/moped; automobile/jeep/van; foremost cereal consumed within the family; and cellular quantity (for Census-related communications solely).

The pre-test or the preparatory train for the primary section of Census was held from November 10-30, 2025 in choose areas throughout the nation and it sought response to 35 questions corresponding to composition of the ground and roof of the home, foremost cereal consumed, supply of consuming water and cooking gasoline, variety of married {couples} in the home.

About 30 lakh subject functionaries together with enumerators, supervisors, grasp trainers, cost officers and Principal/ District Census Officers will probably be deployed for knowledge assortment, monitoring and supervision of Census operations. All of the Census functionaries will probably be paid appropriate honorarium as they are going to be accumulating the info on their private cell phones and will probably be doing this work along with their common duties.