Quasi-Stable Estimates of the Vital Rates of Pakistan

In: The Pakistan development review: PDR, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 638-658

Abstract

The emergence of stable and quasi-stable population theory has
been one of the most interesting developments of demographic theory in
the recent past. Zelnik and Rahman Khan writing in the Spring 1965 issue
of this Review have applied this methodology to Pakistani data with
rather interesting resultsJ. The purpose of this present note is
two-fold. First, is to discuss the assumptions and procedures of the
Zelnik-Rahman Khan use of the quasi-stable model. In other words,
accepting the validity of the model and also its applicability to
Pakistan, have the authors made good use of it? Second, and more
basically, is the quasistable methodology in fact relevant for Pakistan,
given the data available? Let us begin with a brief review of the stable
and quasi-stable population models as they have developed in the last
ten years.