Letter to Editor Quality of 2017 Population Census of Pakistan by Age and Sex

IF 0.5 4区数学 Q4 SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS

Journal of Official Statistics Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.2478/jos-2023-0013

A. Wazir, Anne Goujon

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Abstract This Letter to Editor is a supplement to the previously published article in the Journal of Official Statistics (Wazir and Goujon 2021). In 2021, a reconstruction method using demographic analysis for assessing the quality and validity of the 2017 census data has been applied, by critically investigating the demographic changes in the intercensal period at national and provincial levels. However, at the time when the article was written, the age and sex structure of the population from the 2017 census had not yet been published, making it hard to fully appreciate the reconstruction of the national and subnational level populations. In the meantime, detailed data have become available and offer the possibility to assess the reconstruction’s outcome more in detail. Therefore, this letter aims two-fold: (1) to analyze the quality of the age and sex distribution in the 2017 Population census of Pakistan, and (2) to compare the reconstruction by age and sex to the results of the 2017 population census. Our results reveal that the age and sex structure of the population as estimated by the 2017 census suffer from some irregularities. Our analysis by age and sex reinforces the main conclusion of previous article that the next census in Pakistan should increase in quality with an inbuild post-enumeration survey along with post-census demographic analysis.

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致巴基斯坦2017年按年龄和性别分列的人口普查质量编辑的信

摘要这封致编辑的信是对《官方统计杂志》（Wazir和Goujon，2021）上先前发表的文章的补充。2021年，通过严格调查国家和省级人口普查期间的人口变化，采用了一种使用人口统计分析评估2017年人口普查数据质量和有效性的重建方法。然而，在撰写这篇文章时，2017年人口普查的人口年龄和性别结构尚未公布，因此很难完全理解国家和国家以下各级人口的重建情况。与此同时，已经有了详细的数据，可以更详细地评估重建的结果。因此，这封信的目的有两个：（1）分析巴基斯坦2017年人口普查中年龄和性别分布的质量；（2）将按年龄和性别进行的重建与2017年人口普查的结果进行比较。我们的结果显示，2017年人口普查估计的人口年龄和性别结构存在一些不规则性。我们按年龄和性别进行的分析强化了上一篇文章的主要结论，即巴基斯坦的下一次人口普查应该通过内置的人口普查后调查和人口普查后人口统计分析来提高质量。

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Journal of Official Statistics STATISTICS & PROBABILITY-

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1.90

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9.10%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： JOS is an international quarterly published by Statistics Sweden. We publish research articles in the area of survey and statistical methodology and policy matters facing national statistical offices and other producers of statistics. The intended readers are researchers or practicians at statistical agencies or in universities and private organizations dealing with problems which concern aspects of production of official statistics.