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On the Extent of Digital Preference in Reporting of Ages in Pakistan

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  • FARHAT YUSUF

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics)

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In Pakistan, like many other developing countries of the world, age distributions availabe from the decennial population censuses and sample surveys have shown substantial distortions and irregularities [2; 3; 4; 6, pp.64-75; 9, pp. 638-658; 13; 14, pp. 64-95]. Some of these distortions could be real and may ha.ve been the result of events such as the Bengal famine of 1943 and the post-Independence migration between India and Pakistan. Others could be due to the coverage and response problems encountered in the collection of age data. Among the coverage and response problems, two are of most importance: underenumeration of females and erroneous age-reporting. In countries like Pakistan, which have low literacy rates (19.2 per cent literates according to the 196] Census of Pakistan), most of the people do not know their correct ages

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  • Farhat Yusuf, 1967. "On the Extent of Digital Preference in Reporting of Ages in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 7(4), pages 519-532.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:7:y:1967:i:4:p:519-532
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