Pharmacy Practice Compliance Survey in Punjab, Pakistan, 2024

598 community pharmacy (Point of Sale) survey records from Punjab, Pakistan, collected between July and September 2024. The data assesses adherence to Good Pharmacy Practice guidelines across technology, infrastructure, legal, dispensing, and storage dimensions. Author Jamshaid Akbar published the dataset under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare compliance scores between independent and chain pharmacies based on the reported mean differences.
• Analyze the relationship between pharmacy license type (Category A) and adherence to Good Pharmacy Practice guidelines.
• Investigate the impact of having a Qualified Person on overall pharmacy service quality scores.
• Assess technology adoption and infrastructure gaps, such as temperature monitoring systems, in community pharmacies.

Strengths

• Dataset contains 598 survey records from a defined geographic region (Punjab, Pakistan).
• Data collection period is explicitly stated as 20th July 2024 to 20th September 2024.
• Analysis includes inferential statistics with confidence intervals, such as a mean difference of 11.99 between license types.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data reflects a specific geographic and temporal context, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Author Jamshaid Akbar via figshare.

Collection Method

Descriptive cross-sectional study using a self-designed questionnaire with proportional and convenience sampling.

Time Range

20th July 2024 to 20th September 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 07:31:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Punjab, Pakistan