Changing Patterns of Sub-national Ethnic Distribution in Sarawak, 1939-1980.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Changing Patterns of Sub-national Ethnic Distribution in Sarawak, 1939-1980. |
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Author :
Joseph Ko Tee Hock |
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Abstract:
Amidst the availability of various figures from different sources with varying concepts/definitions, planners and administrators alike face the varying task of quantitatively analyzing and comparing prevailing or emerging patterns and trends for policy and decision-making purposes. Social and economic analysts have, therefore, often ventured into the statistical past to have a peep of what might have happened in by gone years in the hope of being able to deduce and project patterns of trends in days to come. This paper represents one such statistical ventures into the Sarawak past, aiming to highlight patterns and trends of population distribution for a four decade period between 1939 and 1980. In particular, it attempts to (a) explore the sources from which historical figuresare available, (b) research and analyze problems, and hence limitations of making inter-temporal comparisons, (c) highlight changing patterns of population distribution for major ethnic groups in each of the administrative districts in Sarawak, (d) study how each ethnic group has (or has not) shifted its population distribution or concentration from one district to another over the past four decades.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Hock, J. K. T. (1986). Changing Patterns of Sub-national Ethnic Distribution in Sarawak, 1939-1980. The Sarawak Museum Journal, XXXVI (57): 1-12 |
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