Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan

Census, which is generally conducted at decennial intervals in Pakistan, plays an essential role for collection of wide range of data. It is of prime importance for national planning as it is the main source for the study of various aspects of population, who are the beneficiaries/sufferers of any g...

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Main Authors:	Syed Nawaz ul Huda, Burke, Farkhunda, Ghazi Salahuddin, Imran Ahmad, Mazhar Jamal
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Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2013
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6074/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6074/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6074/1/129-139.pdf

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spelling	ukm-60742016-12-14T06:40:18Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6074/ Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan Syed Nawaz ul Huda, Burke, Farkhunda Ghazi Salahuddin, Imran Ahmad, Mazhar Jamal, Census, which is generally conducted at decennial intervals in Pakistan, plays an essential role for collection of wide range of data. It is of prime importance for national planning as it is the main source for the study of various aspects of population, who are the beneficiaries/sufferers of any governmental policies. Manual methods of census conduction being cumbersome and erroneous, has become obsolete and outdated and is being increasingly replaced by automated methods, notably Census GIS. The objective of this paper is to present a model for the implementation of GIs for census enumeration, in order to overcome the inordinate delay in the last census in Pakistan, as census is the basis for streamlined and fool proof national, local and regional planning and disaster management. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2013-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6074/1/129-139.pdf Syed Nawaz ul Huda, and Burke, Farkhunda and Ghazi Salahuddin, and Imran Ahmad, and Mazhar Jamal, (2013) Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 9 (1). pp. 129-139. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?
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description	Census, which is generally conducted at decennial intervals in Pakistan, plays an essential role for collection of wide range of data. It is of prime importance for national planning as it is the main source for the study of various aspects of population, who are the beneficiaries/sufferers of any governmental policies. Manual methods of census conduction being cumbersome and erroneous, has become obsolete and outdated and is being increasingly replaced by automated methods, notably Census GIS. The objective of this paper is to present a model for the implementation of GIs for census enumeration, in order to overcome the inordinate delay in the last census in Pakistan, as census is the basis for streamlined and fool proof national, local and regional planning and disaster management.
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author	Syed Nawaz ul Huda, Burke, Farkhunda Ghazi Salahuddin, Imran Ahmad, Mazhar Jamal,
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title	Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan
title_short	Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan
title_full	Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan
title_fullStr	Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed	Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan
title_sort	development of census-gis methodology in pakistan
publisher	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
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Development of census-GIS methodology in Pakistan

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