official statistics Flashcards
1
Q
what are official stats?
A
produced by government or official bodies who obtain data wwhich sociologists use for secondary data
2
Q
what are some practical issues of official stats?
A
free source of lots of data
easy to compare data
able to go into the past and compare before and after
some statistics may not benefit the researcher
3
Q
what are some theoretical issues of statistics?
A
able to gain large amount of information and is therefore representative
can be reliable
