Cities & Regions

Why can’t marriage patterns from one Pakistani city represent another?

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Every province, territory, major city, and rural or urban setting requires evidence specific to the claim being made. Pakistan’s regions differ greatly in population size, settlement patterns, education, connectivity, migration, and the composition of available samples. Data from Lahore, Islamabad, or Rawalpindi cannot stand in for Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, rural districts, or an entire province. A local claim needs an adequate local denominator and a sampling method suited to that population.

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Government Data · 2023

7th Population and Housing Census 2023

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Official census context for population, provinces, urban-rural structure and limits of national demographic claims.View source
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