Abridged Life Tables of Pakistan and Provinces by Sex, 1962

Muhammad Aslam, Sultan Hashmi and William Seltzer
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Muhammad Aslam: Central Statistical Office, Government of Pakistan
Sultan Hashmi: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
William Seltzer: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

The Pakistan Development Review, 1967, vol. 7, issue 1, 66-106

Abstract: Mortality in a population is measured by a number of demographic indices such as the crude death rate, the infant mortality rate, the age-specific death rate or the standardised death rate. Still another more comprehensive method of portr,aying mortality conditions in a population is by means of a life table. A life table as compared to other mortality indices serves many useful purposes. For measuring longevity of life, projecting current population into the future or estimating incidence of widowhood and orphanhood, a life table is essential. For comparison of expectation of life (or average duration of life) at birth and after birth for various ages of different populations the life table is also commonly used. Besides

Date: 1967
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