7RM official statistics

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what are official statistics?
information collected and published by the government which is displayed in numbers
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what are non-official statistics?
information collected by organisations other than the government such as businesses and charities which is displayed in numbers
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what are hard statistics?
statistics of topics which are hard to manipulate like birth and death rates
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what are soft statistics?
statistics of topics which are easy to manipulate and less accurrate such as crime rates and school performances
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what are the problems with crime statistics?
not all crimes are reported, the police dont report all crimes, not all crimes are witnesses
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what are the problems with education statistics?
high league table positions may be because of things other than the school, schools manipulate their exam results
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what are the problems with health statistics?
sick days can be fake, not everyone goes to the doctor when ill
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what are the problems with unemployment statistics?
people work but claim benefits and people may not work and cant claim benefits
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what are the problems with family statistics?
separated couples might not get divorced, couples may not live together officially
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what are the problems with religion statistics?
some people say they are religious but dont practice, some people attend worship but dont believe
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what are the strengths of official statistics?
finding trends, comparisons over time, comparing characteristics, quick and cheap to find, often repeated, representitive, ethical
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what are the weaknesses of official statistics?
can be manipulated, some topics arent researched, some things are hard to measure, may have been collected or recorded wrong
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what was Durkheim's study?
a study of suicide rates across europe using official statistics finding patterns between suicide, marriage and religion
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what is a criticism of Durkheim's study?
Atkinson said that suicide statistics were manipulated by the coroners interpretation of the death
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