Official statistics (secondary quantitative data)
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- Created on: 04-05-19 16:09
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- Official statistics (quantitative secondary data)
- two main sources: day to day activities of government departments and surveys like the census
- hard stats
- simple counts that register events such as births and deaths
- not easily manipulated
- tend to be valid
- soft stats
- more easily manipulated
- eg/ crime stats / employment
- hard stats
- The census- survey sent out every 10 years and its a legal requirement that gathers data on all aspects of life helps gov form stats
- strengths
- useful for positivsts- quantitative data can analyse and draw correlations, large scale representattive
- readily available
- cheap and easy to collect
- objective and reliable- collected under strict guidelines
- representative and generalisable
- can predict future assumptions- such as number of people marrying
- researchers can establish links
- ethical as theyre publically available
- weaknesses
- rejected by interpretivists
- view it as invalid, objective cant gain verstehen
- classifications and definitions may differ (operationalisation)
- invalid- dark figure manipulated to look better
- social contructions
- political bias- Marxists- gov change them to make them look better
- male bias- feminists- biasd against women doesn't class housework as employment
- rejected by interpretivists
- two main sources: day to day activities of government departments and surveys like the census
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