On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > India Census 2011 data are available in the government website > http://censusindia.gov.in/ > Detailed tables are available in > http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/prov_rep_tables.html in > PDF as well as "Excel Version" >
In general there are different levels of census data. They have put up a fragment. Lower level data will have sensitive information and privacy issues may be associated. It is important to prepare 'synthetic' equivalents for free transmission of lower level things > Material on this site subject to copyright unless otherwise indicated. > The material may be downloaded without requiring prior permission. Any > other proposed use of the material is subject to the approval of ORGI > - New Delhi. Application for obtaining permission should be made to > ORGI, New Delhi > > [...] > > I am a bit confused about this, What is meant by "Downloading without > permission"? > Census data is very data used in many places. People looking for > population, literacy, etc often land in Wikipedia pages and not in > these websites. So if we copy this data and put in wikipedia artcle > about India or a State in India, does it cause any copy right > violation? > If you indicate the source and put up a reasonable portion, then there is no issue. But merely copying portions is not sensible for many parameters as the underlying methodology is modified periodically in very questionable ways for 'political reasons'. You will find many related articles/papers and data as well in EPW . Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
