Open AccessVital Rates in East and West Pakistan Tentative Results from the PGE Experiment
Author(s) -
Karol J. Krótki,
Nazir Ahmed
Publication year - 1964
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/v4i4pp.734-759
Subject(s) - excuse , interim , subject (documents) , criticism , population , natural (archaeology) , assertiveness , psychology , political science , law , history , sociology , social psychology , demography , computer science , library science , archaeology
Readers of this journal were introduced to the PopulationGrowth Estimation (PGE) experiment in the issue of Spring 1962 [5].Since then five mimeographed interim reports1 have appeared and twopapers have been presented to international conferences [23 ;4]. Theexperiment is now in its third year and the time has come to report morecomprehensively on the findings and experiences of the first two years.We feel the importance of the findings to be so great for the future ofthis country (and the confidence in their reliability to be sufficientlyhigh) that they should be disclosed. Even if not immediately accepted,the findings will provoke continued enquiries, resulting in eventualacceptance of more generally agreed upon vital rates. Simultaneously, amore comprehensive report in the form of a monograph is being prepared[3]. Opinions of an assertive nature in this article will — it is hoped— be justified more convincingly in the monograph. The monograph willthus enable both the authors and the readers to subject the PGEexperiment and its findings to a much more penetrating criticism thanthe current article. Although this article is a report on the first twoyears of the experiment, it repeats in broad strokes some of theintroductory material available elsewhere. Readers familiar with theexperiment will excuse this tendency to ensure that the present articleis self contained. Besides discussing certain natural developmentsarising from the experiment, this paper indicates briefly someevolutionary shifts in our thinking and the consequent changes in theorganization and administration of the experiment.