Open AccessAre "Consistent Time Series Data Relating to Pakistan's Large-scale Manufacturing Industries" Inconsistent? Remarks to A.R. Kemal's Reply to a Comment
Author(s) -
Ole David Koht Norbye
Publication year - 1978
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/v17i4pp.511-516
Subject(s) - misrepresentation , series (stratigraphy) , scale (ratio) , econometrics , subject (documents) , economics , mathematical economics , computer science , law , political science , geography , paleontology , cartography , library science , biology
In a comment [4] I discussed the methods used in two articlesby A.R. Kemal [1, 2] which aimed at presenting new time series for thedevelop¬ment of Pakistan's large scale manufacturing industries duringthe period 1959-1960 to 1969-1970. I found the methods questionable, andconcluded that the new series probably were more misleading than theexisting official statistics. To illustrate the weakness of themethodology I gave some numerical examples from Kemal's own material,and I also compared his figures with some data from other sources. In areply to my comments [3] Kemal finds my observations either marginal ornot well founded or even ■directly wrong. Since Kemal's reply in partbuilds on a misrepresentation of some of my comments and since hisrejection of my objections on some points is not substantiated, I findit necessary to come back to this subject once more with some fewremarks.