The 1964 Chinese census, officially the Second National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, was conducted by the People's Republic of China with a zero hour of 1 July 1964.
[2][better source needed] The 1964 census included additional information about education, occupation, and class to the information gathered by the first census concerning name, age, sex, nationality, and relationship to heads of households.
[1] China's official Xinhua news organization continues to report more significant figure.
[4] The census found approximately 356,520,000 men and 338,060,000 women living in China, a ratio of 105.46 to 100.
The information collected about occupation and education could have been more systematic, and it could not even be accurately tabulated[3] even though the nation's illiteracy rate was recorded at 32.26%[1] and 33.58%.