jamshaid

2. Presentation of official statistics
Muhammad Tariq Jamshaid
Roll No= BSTF11-077
Department of Statistics
University of Sargodha
Sargodha

3. Indicators
• Percentage of disabled population
• Age dependency Ratio
• Women Participation in the Labor Force of Pakistan

4. Percentage of disabled
population
Disability:
Disability is the consequence of an impairment that may
be physical, cognitive, mental, , emotional,
developmental, or some combination of these. A disability
may be present from birth, or occur during a person's
lifetime.

5. Disabled Population by Sex, Nature of Disability and
province(1998 census)
Area/prov
ince
Total Blind Deaf and
dumb
crippled Mentally
retarded
Insane Other
disabled
Pakistan 3286630 264762 244254 622025 249823 210129 1695637
male 1915102 145656 139168 379989 134489 119139 996661
female 1371528 119106 105086 242036 115334 90990 698976
Islamaba
d
8434 778 1020 2521 679 1051 2385
male 5188 455 619 1546 367 602 786
female 3246 323 401 975 312 449 1599
Punjab 1826623 154962 149257 380440 143739 123215 875010
male 1073840 85420 85939 234632 77641 72213 516995
female 752783 69542 63318 144808 66098 51002 358015
Singh 929400 69491 57409 98143 69259 56961 578137
male 530600 38818 31256 59532 36110 29579 335305
female 398800 30673 26153 38611 33149 27382 242832
KPK 375752 27202 28891 119236 27929 22173 150321
Male 222054 14331 17034 71250 15970 13190 90279
female 153698 12871 11857 47986 11959 8983 60042
Baluchist
an
146421 12329 7677 21685 8217 6729 89784

6. Age dependency Ratio
 Definition:
Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--
people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the
working-age population--those ages 15-64.
 A minimum of 61.83 percent in 2013
 A maximum of 90.33 percent in 1992

7. Method of measurementOver all dependency ratio
ADR=
Child dependency ratio
ADR=

8. Method of measurement
 Old dependency ratio
ADR =

9. Dependency Ratio in Pakistan
Year Ratio
1963 81.43
1973 89.2
1983 88.21
1993 90.2
2003 77.15
2013 61.83

10. Graph of Dependency Ratio
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11. Compare to other countries
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12. Women Participation in the
Labor Force of Pakistan
 Labor force participation:
Measures the proportion(women) of a specific
population (15 and above) considered to be either
working or actively searching for a job
Gender wise labour force participation rates:
 Males 81.9%
 Females 27%

13. In Pakistan
 In Pakistan women, participation in the labor force
remains low, merely because women are expected to
perform household chores for example cleaning,
cooking and taking care of children.

14. Compare with other country
 Compared to other South Asian countries,
FLFP rate is low in Pakistan. For example,
FLFP rate is over 40 percent in Bangladesh and
Nepal, 32 percent in India and Bhutan, 36
percent in Sri Lanka and only 27 percent in
Pakistan

15. Factors affecting women labour
force
 Education
 Material status
 Family size
 Households financial status
 Mobility of labor

16. Women and Labour Laws
 There are no women specific labour laws except the
right to a maternity leave;
 There is also a law that women and children in the
labour force have the right to less work hours;
 Recently, the government has enacted a new law to
make provisions for protection of women against
harassment at the workplace.