hello, Update : I stand corrected. The areas of 2011 census villages are available from Village_Amenities tables from Data.gov.in <http://data.gov.in/>
and from DCHB tables from census site. On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 7:52:29 PM UTC+5:30, Naraina aka Dilip Damle wrote: > > Hello, > From first principles > > Population density means Population Divided Geographical Area. > > To compute area we need boundaries or the areas directly. > > I feel the Area or the boundary of a Pincode number is not available. May > not be reliable. > > Population is also not available Pincodewise. > > But you have Population and area of villages Precisely in census Data. > > > There are about 6.5 lakh Villages and Data for them is available. > > > > Latest Pincode directory has about 1.5 Lakh entries containing about > 19000 Pincodes from Data.gov.in > > > If you really want to work at Pincode Level then you will need to figure > out how to link these to Data sets. > > > I am not mentioning any specific source because it is confusing. > > ------------- > > If you are going by District Data then you are not going at Pincode level. > My guess ... > > ------------- > > To the Best of my knowledge Census of India Villagewise areas are > available only for 2001 census. Same data for 2011 is not released yet. > > > On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 1:15:34 PM UTC+5:30, Pradeep wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Has anyone worked on computing population density per pincode ? Does post >> department maintain this data in any form ? >> >> We were planning to compute this from census data and our approach was >> >> Density per Pincode = ( Pop of district containing the pincode ) / ( >> Number of pincodes in that district ) >> >> *Source* : Census data and List of All Pincodes >> >> What is your opinion on this approach ? >> >> Regards, >> Pradeep >> >> >> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
