Open AccessQuasi-Stable Estimates of the Vital Rates of Pakistan
Author(s) -
Warren C. Robinson,
William Seltzer,
Sultan S. Hashmi
Publication year - 1965
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/v5i4pp.638-658
Subject(s) - research methodology , population , econometrics , stability (learning theory) , positive economics , history , sociology , economics , demography , computer science , machine learning
The emergence of stable and quasi-stable population theory hasbeen one of the most interesting developments of demographic theory inthe recent past. Zelnik and Rahman Khan writing in the Spring 1965 issueof this Review have applied this methodology to Pakistani data withrather interesting resultsJ. The purpose of this present note istwo-fold. First, is to discuss the assumptions and procedures of theZelnik-Rahman Khan use of the quasi-stable model. In other words,accepting the validity of the model and also its applicability toPakistan, have the authors made good use of it? Second, and morebasically, is the quasistable methodology in fact relevant for Pakistan,given the data available? Let us begin with a brief review of the stableand quasi-stable population models as they have developed in the lastten years.