The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday launched the country’s first-ever fully digital Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2024-25, a landmark initiative aimed at strengthening data-driven governance and evidence-based policymaking, with results indicating notable improvements in education, health, digital access and household living standards. Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal […]
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Tarin says PBS revamped to get proper statistics for better policy interventions
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin on Sunday said that the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics was revamped in order to make it an independent institution to get proper statistics for better policy interventions. Addressing a virtual press briefing, he said that it was not functioning under the Ministry of Finance. To a […]