National Assembly Body Briefed On 6th Population, Housing Census, 2017

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Statistics was informed here on Tuesday that Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) was working in close collaboration with Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and has provided all the required documents of 6th Population and Housing Census 2017 to ECP for delimitation and electoral exercise as per their demand

ISLAMABAD,(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 06th Feb, 2018 ) :The National Assembly Standing Committee on Statistics was informed here on Tuesday that Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) was working in close collaboration with Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and has provided all the required documents of 6th Population and Housing Census 2017 to ECP for delimitation and electoral exercise as per their demand.

"We are fully cooperating with the ECP and have provided all the required documents including comparison of census blocks scheme 2011 and 2017, showing increase, decrease, merged, split census blocks, area list of 2017 census, list of field staff engaged by PBS during Census 2017, urban area blocks maps along with description forms at Pakistan level excluding Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, and mauza level maps, list of focal persons of PBS," said member Census and Surveys PBS, Habib Ullah Khattak while briefing the committee.

Meanwhile regarding the provisional result of population and housing census, Habib Ullah said that total annual growth rate between 1998 and 2017 remained 2.

4 per cent while during 1981 and 1998 it was recorded at 3.06 per cent per year.

The meeting was informed that total population of the country had increased from 84.25 million in 1981 to 132.35 million in 1998 to 207.77 million in 2017. According to province wise detail, the annual population growth rate in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between 1998 and 2017 remained 2.89 per cent, in FATA it was recorded at 2.89 per cent, while 2.13 per cent was recorded in Punjab, 2.41 per cent in Sindh, 3.37 per cent in Balochistan and 4.91 per cent in Islamabad.

Chairman of the committee Dr. Ramesh Kumar Wankwani said that the Statistics division was an important department and the whole economy of the country was based on the findings of this department. He directed the PBS high officials to share the findings of their surveys with media and for this purpose it should hold regular media briefings to make public aware of such results.