The Age Tables, smoothed and Polished-gender wise, are integral bases of demographic and actuarial studies; and they apply to the whole lot of subjects that require human being to be classified as young, adult or old, like in: Population Study, Insurance and Banking, Marketing, Production Strategy, Social Planning, Educational Planning, Welfare Planning. The Age tables provide powerful tools. In this treatise, they revealed several types of information including the as below: The estimate of the outmigration of the indentures Indian labourers-Indian Slaves or Coolie-for period between 1881 to 1925, The Possibility of a baby boom in Indian during the decade of 1951 to 1961, The foreboding of an uncontrollable ‘population explosion’ in India by the year of 2021 and the possible measures to prevent it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jitendra Kumar Barthakur
The author is Ph.D. in Statistics and had worked, inter alia, as the Director of Census Operation of Arunachal Pradesh of Indian in 1971 Census, the first one that used the all India method of census taking. He had authored thirteen census publications for Arunachal Pradesh, again the first ones that went beyond providing the population totals. Some of the monographs he wrote were out of the way of the range of usual census publications. One was "Swidden to sedentary Cultivation" that showed that the switch from swidden, or Jhum, cultivation in the forest assart to sedentary cultivation on terrace was a clear possibility in Arunachal Pradesh. Similarly, the monograph, "Land and landlock", traced the ownership and possession of land by the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh to serve as the precurssor to making land laws of the state. The author wrote the book named "Himalayan Transition" that showed the initial effects of contact in the traditional societies of Arunachal Pradesh. "Reform Money" is based on agricultural credit. The author's book "Naga Path" is on the developmental expenditure at Block level of Nagaland and the Government of Nagaland had sponsored the book. The author worked as the consultant to the Government of Mizoram for marketing agriculture produce through cooperation, and wrote the book: "A Mizo march".
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