Documents

Question 1

What are Official Statistics?

Answer 1

Quantitative data gathered by government agencies represented in graphs, tables and figures, secondary sources which positivists favour

Question 2

examples of official statistics

Answer 2

crime statistics, census, employment statistics

Question 3

Advantages of Official Statistics

Answer 3

Easy accessibility, saves time and money, representative, generalisable, reliable, show trends and patterns

Question 4

Disadvantages of Official Statistics

Answer 4

lack validity, not collected for sociological research, might be biased by gov, definitions may change over time

Question 5

what type of data do documents produce?

Answer 5

Qualitative secondary data

Question 6

What are the 3 type of documents/statistics?

Answer 6

Public documents
Personal documents
Official Statistics