Open AccessDenominator Adjusted PGE Fertility and Mortality Rates for Pakistan and Bangladesh: 1962 - 65
Author(s) -
Muhammad Afzal
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v16i2pp.192-207
Subject(s) - fertility , population , demography , estimation , geography , sampling (signal processing) , socioeconomics , statistics , economics , mathematics , computer science , management , filter (signal processing) , sociology , computer vision
The Population Growth Estimation (PGE) experiment of Pakistan,launched in 1961 to collect data on births and deaths through a samplingapproach, yielded estimates of vital rates for the years 1962 through1965. The statistics obtained through the PGE for each of the former twowings of the country namely West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and EastPakistan (now Bangla¬desh) were included in the two reports on PGE whichalso provided a description of the project design and some of theresults [4, 5]. The overall aim of the PGE was to arrive at reliableestimates of birth and death rates through improved coverage by thesimultaneous use of Longitudinal Registration (LR) and retrospectiveCross-sectional Survey (CS), which were each independently carried outin the same sample areas. The purpose behind using the two systems wasthat either the registration or the survey when used alone would misssome events of births and deaths which had actually occurred, whereasunder the dual system if one system failed to cover some events, theother was likely to pick these up and vice versa.