Official Statistics Flashcards
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What are Official Statistics?
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Quantitative data gathered by government agencies represented in graphs, tables and figures, secondary sources which positivists favour
2
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examples of official statistics
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crime statistics, census, employment statistics
3
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Advantages
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Easy accessibility, saves time and money, representative, generalisable, reliable, show trends and patterns
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Disadvantages
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lack validity, not collected for sociological research, might be biased by gov, definitions may change over time
