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

S. P. Jain

Abstract

Demographic models of mortality, nuptiality and fertility have revolutionised techniques of estimating demographic measures for developing countries, which do not have sufficiently accurate basic data from censuses, surveys and civil registration. Most people in these countries are unable to give ages correctly. As a detailed study of the Indian age returns has shown, they are highly distorted.

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S. P. Jain

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The Registrar General, India has published the population of post-Partition India as from 1901, but not its age structure, which occupies such an important position in demographic studies. S.B. Mukherjee has given the age-sex distribution of the Indian Union-since 1881 according to 1971 layout by States and Union Territories in his book 'The Age Distribution of the Indian Population 1881-1961' by reconstructing the data from the district level, a tremendous task indeed.

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