PANAJI
The month-long door-to-door exercise under Phase I of Census 2027 concluded in Goa on Friday, May 15, marking the completion of the Digital Layout Mapping (DLM) of buildings and houselisting operations (HLO) across the State.
With the completion of the exercise, no new household entries will now be made on the Houselisting Operation application.
The survey, which commenced on April 16, involved 3,086 enumerators, including teachers and government staff, who carried out extensive door-to-door visits across Goa.
The first phase focused on collecting detailed information on houses and households. Data gathered included building and census house numbers, construction materials used for floors, walls and roofs, the usage and condition of houses, ownership status, number of rooms, and the number of usual residents in each household.
Enumerators also recorded details of the head of the household, including name, gender and social category, such as Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. Information regarding the number of married couples in a household was also collected.
The exercise further captured data on access to basic amenities, including drinking water, electricity, toilet facilities, wastewater outlets, bathing and kitchen facilities, and the type of cooking fuel used, including LPG and PNG.
As per the 2011 Census, Goa had a total of 3,43,611 households, of which 1,24,674 were located in rural areas.
However, the Economic Survey of Goa 2024-25 has projected the State’s population at approximately 15.96 lakh, compared to 14.5 lakh recorded in the 2011 Census. The survey also estimates that the total number of households in Goa may have crossed the five-lakh mark.
The second phase of Census 2027, Population Enumeration, is scheduled to be conducted from February 9 to February 28, 2027, with the final census data expected to be released on March 1, 2027.
