Hindko and Gujari. c - SIL International

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Calvin R. Rensch
Sherpur, a more accessible community in southern
Mansehra District, about ten kilometers northwest of
the district center; 15 and
Balakot, a large community at the southern end of the
Kaghan Valley in eastern Mansehra District.
In these communities representatives of various households
were interviewed in order to learn the (approximate) age of each
of the males and females of that household and the level of
education that each has attained. In two communities, Jammun
and Singo Di Garhi, it was possible to interview a representative
of every household. In Sherpur it was possible to collect such
information for many, but not all, households. In Balakot
information was gathered from and about only a selected
sampling of men.
Whenever information is collected about only part of a
community, a question arises concerning the extent to which the
data sample is truly representative of that entire community.
Fortunately, data about the age categories of all men and women
of voting age, collected by the central government of Pakistan,
are available for the village of Sherpur (Sherpur Election List,
1979-80). This body of data is presumably exhaustive for the
entire adult population of Sherpur. Therefore, the percentage of
people in each age category found there was considered
representative and was extended for predicting the percentage of
people in each such category in other communities. The
percentages of the total adult population who are in each of the
age and gender subgroups of Sherpur are presented in figure
(1.1).
15 It should be noted that this study embraced only the upper section of
Sherpur, in which Hindko is used as the language of the home. It did not
include interviewing or testing in the homes in which Pashto is the home
language.