7th Population and Housing Census 2023 — Table 1
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2023
Population, area, density, urban proportion and annual growth baseline.
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Evidence Library · Phase 6
What the evidence base contains.
PPRI brings together official statistics, research institutions and independent analysis. The existence of a source in this library does not mean PPRI endorses every conclusion in it.
National Census Report 2023 — Administrative Units
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2023
Administrative hierarchy and province/division/district counts.
Open original source →7th Population & Housing Census — Detailed Results (Excel)
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2023
District-level and detailed census tables for future Observatory expansion.
Open original source →GIS — Census 2023 administrative materials
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2023
Administrative districts, delimitation and census-area resources.
Open original source →A Critical Path to Fiscal Federalism: Policy Imperatives for the NFC Award Remake
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics · 2026
Fiscal federalism, transfers, own-source revenue and service-delivery incentives.
Open original source →NFC at a Crossroads: Revisiting Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics · 2025
NFC and unfinished devolution to local governments.
Open original source →New Administrative Units in Pakistan: An Economic and Financial Context of the Debate
Institute of Policy Studies · 2026
Resource transfers, governance costs, tax administration, borrowing and sequencing.
Open original source →Beyond New Provinces: Rethinking Pakistan’s Governance Crisis
Institute of Policy Studies · 2026
Places provincial restructuring in the wider context of local government and institutional reform.
Open original source →Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2024–25
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2025
National benchmark on household income, consumption, food insecurity, WASH, education, and urban-rural welfare divides across 32,814 households.
Open original source →HIES 2024–25 Economic Report
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2025
Household income and consumption by quintile, expenditure composition, household size, earners, and fuel spending.
Open original source →HIES 2024–25 Social Report
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2025
Food insecurity prevalence, clean water access, ICT and internet penetration, and electricity connectivity by province and region.
Open original source →Pakistan Social & Living Standards Measurement (PSLM)
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2024
District-level socioeconomic indicators for examining geographic disparities in service delivery and welfare outcomes.
Open original source →Labour Force Survey 2024–25
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2025
National and provincial labour-force participation, unemployment dynamics, and wage context.
Open original source →Consumer Price Index (CPI) Statistics
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · 2025
Official monthly and annual price inflation rates used for illustrative purchasing-power trajectory comparisons.
Open original source →Pakistan Economic Survey 2025–26
Finance Division, Government of Pakistan · 2026
Official national poverty headcount (28.9%), Gini coefficient (32.7), and macroeconomic indicators.
Open original source →Strengthening Fiscal Federalism to Drive Development in Pakistan
World Bank · 2026
Comprehensive policy assessment of subnational finance, documenting local government expenditure falling under 5% and recurrent spending shares over 80%.
Open original source →Punjab’s Intermediate Cities Raise the Bar on Urban Management
World Bank · 2026
Operational case study of 16 intermediate cities benefiting 4.5 million residents, linking GIS asset inventories and planning to tripled municipal own-source revenues.
Open original source →Pakistan National Urban Assessment
Asian Development Bank · 2024
Strategic review of urbanization trends, municipal infrastructure deficits, and city-management reforms in Pakistan.
Open original source →Subnational Finance and Investment & Making Decentralisation Work
OECD · 2019–2024
Comparative governance benchmarks showing OECD subnational shares of ~40% public spending and ~55% public investment, alongside fiscal assignment principles.
Open original source →Pakistan Citizen’s Portal (PCP)
Prime Minister’s Performance Delivery Unit · 2025
Public platform tracking over 6.6 million citizen grievances, revealing demand patterns and administrative friction across government departments.
Open original source →Wafaqi Mohtasib Pakistan — Annual Report 2024
Federal Ombudsman Secretariat · 2024
Statutory complaint redressal workload (226,372 complaints received) and institutional outreach for citizens facing federal administrative delays.
Open original source →Ombudsman Punjab — Annual Report 2024
Office of the Ombudsman Punjab · 2024
Provincial maladministration cases, department-specific grievance volumes, and systemic procedural delays.
Open original source →e-Khidmat Markaz Service Model
Punjab Information Technology Board · 2025
Integrated one-window service delivery model designed to reduce citizen travel, intermediaries, informal fees, and administrative burden.
Open original source →National Corruption Perception Survey 2023 & 2025
Transparency International Pakistan · 2023–2025
Rigorous empirical perception survey across 4,000 respondents in 20 districts, capturing sector-level perceived corruption and self-reported unofficial payment burdens.
Open original source →Devolution & Service Delivery Outcomes in Pakistan
Peer-Reviewed Literature (PMC / PIDE) · 2012–2020
Empirical studies evaluating the impact of the 2001 local government reforms on primary school enrollment and public health-service access.
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