Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

U. P. Sinha

Abstract

The 1971 Census of India enumerated 547,949,809 persons (283,936,614 males and 264,013,195 females) on April 1, 1971. This figure has fallen short of the estimated population total by 13 million. The Registrar General of India is of the opinion that the gap between the enumerated and estimated populations is due to the over-optimistic assumptions made regarding mortality by the Expert Committee on Population Projections.

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U. P. Sinha

Abstract

Jain in his paper published in Artha Vijnana, Vol. XI, No. 4, 1969 claims that Hajnal's method of estimating the mean age at first marriage is reasonably good for populations where the decrease in the proportion of 'single' is gradual but may not be so in cases where early universal marriage prevails, and has cited the case of India.

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