Lanka, Bangladesh are started about the same time as that in Pakistan and there has been a considerable reduction in fertility in these countries. During the past five decades Pakistan experienced a slow pace change in fertility-total fertility rate has declined from eight children per woman in...

The shift of birth and death rates from high to low level in any population is referred as demographic transition. Mechanically, the transition of a society creates more working member of its own population commonly called demographic bonus. This article empirically explores the realistic...

Polygonal designs, a class of partially balanced incomplete block designs with regular polygons, are useful in survey sampling in terms of balanced sampling plans excluding contiguous units (BSECs) and balanced sampling plans excluding adjacent units (BSAs) when neighboring units in a population...

In this article, we wish to write comments on recently published article "Shah, A.A. and Aleem, M. (2010). Estimating income variances by probability sampling: a case study. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 4(2), 194-201", which suggest improvement as well as criticism on the...

Pakistan launched one of the first population control programs in the late 1950s, yet has lagged far behind other countries in effective implementation over the past five decades. The primary purpose of this note is to make a clear case for formulating an integrated and effective population...

In this paper, a demographic study was conducted on Muslim Arians of Punjab, Pakistan. Hitherto no detailed demographic study has been conducted on Arians of Pakistan. The population composition of Arians residing in Punjab was evaluated. The survey was conducted in three Arians pre-dominated...

Because of no ethnographical survey, ecological and ethnographical studies are available in an underdeveloped area of demographic research in Pakistan. Keeping this view in mind, this paper evaluates the fertility profile of the Arians, an indigenous community in Pakistan. A random sample of 510...

The problem of malnutrition has never been good and the information regarding nutrition would be advantageous particularly in case of Pakistan because significant progress of nutrition awareness at regional level is scarce. The focus of this study is to assess the nutritional believes, practice,...