India's census ends

Two million enumerators in India have filled out their last questionnaires ending a three-week census.

The population was estimated to have crossed the one-billion mark last year.

The census takers visited more than two-hundred million Indian households to document patterns of living, mode of transport, the number of working women, and for the first time, the number of disabled people. The census was postponed in some parts of the state of Gujarat which was devastated by an earthquake last month.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service