Official Statistics Flashcards

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Positivist see OS as ________ social facts, and they can be used to establish _____ and ______ relationships. (T)

A

Objective, cause, effect.

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Do positivist like official statistics?

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Yes.

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What does detailed analysis of OS make it possible to do? (T)

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To make predictions of future events.

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They are _______ because of their standardised ___________ and collection techniques. So they can be easily _________. (_)

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Reliable, standardised, replicated, T.

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As they are based on large data sets, what do they provide? (T)

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Reliable, representative and generalisable information.

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OS are used to make _____________ between ________ and map out trends over periods of time. (_)

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Comparisons, variables, T.

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Statistics are readily… (P)

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available, and cheap and quick to use.

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Why is biased reduced when using OS? (P)

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The collection of statistics is not influenced by the researcher.

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What are statistics useful to help shape? (P)

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Social policy decision making.

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Why do OS gave no ethical problems? (E)

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They are in the public domain, require no consent to be used, and preserve anonymity as no individuals are identified personally.

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Do intepretivists like official statistics?

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No, positivist do

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Official statistics are seen as 1)_______ 2)___________ with 3)______ statistics meaning they are easily 4)___________

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1) social
2) constructions
3) soft
4) manipulated

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Soft statistics reduce…

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The validity, reliability and representativeness

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1)__________ use qualitative methods such as 2)__________ and 3)__________ to discover how statistics are socially constructed.

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1) interpretivists
2) observations
3) interviews

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What are recorded births and deaths referred to as?

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Hard statistics

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Soft statistics are a theoretical 1)__________

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1) disadvantage

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Statistics can be easily bias, what does this lower?

A

Validity

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Why can statistics be bias?

A

The ways in which statistics are recorded can of changed, making the old statistics bias.

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Statistic are a form of (qualitative or quantitative) data

A

Quantitative

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What do statistics lack?

A

Insight into the meanings, feelings and motivations of the people being studied (theoretical disadvantage)

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Official statistics are not collected by the researcher. This means the data is…

A

Secondary

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What is the practical problem with secondary data?

A

May not include all the necessary information required

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The way statistics are defined and measured can change over time. How does this effect statistics?

A

This makes it difficult to make comparisons over time as things change.

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A 1)_________ problem is statistics cannot be verified (double 2)________)

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1) practical

2) checked