Rebel Bhai, statistics are not generated like this and statistical inferences are not made this way. The article mentions the evidence by only one car lifter making the sample size faulty and insufficient to be the basis of any good approximation. Actually, there is this inclination in other provinces to link crimes to NWFP.
This impression is also wrong that less number of people in NWFP have number of cars. The opposite may be correct raher as for percentage of people having cars is concerned. As for population, there is 1:3 ratio but as for car lfting there is 1:21 ratio.
I think for car lifting and other crimes the fudalistic nature of society may be responsibe, which puts less restrain on the powerful. A corrupt police system may also be responsible for that.
sarkar, I live in a world of statistics, and inferences can be made on data points like I mentioned. for the case of crimes as in a previoius threads, absolute numbers did not tell much until they were compared against population.
here you will need 3 data points, # of cars stolen, population, and car ownership percentage, that will give you a real view of crime rates. This infomation may be obtainable but it may take some digging.
looking at basic raw numbers and saying oh wow, its much less in such and such place is incorrect. one may look at NWFP and baluchistan and say well baluchistan only really had a few dozen more cars stolen than NWFP, but then when you look at it with the context that baluschistan has a smaller population, it just shows that the problem there is more severe.
I am surprised that the article does not list Karachi, because to the best if my knowledge that is ine placew where car jacking and car theft is very high.