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OFFICIAL STATISTICS
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OFFICIAL STATISTICS
Quantitative Data gathered by the government or other official bodies.
- Examples include statistics of death, birth, marriages and divorces, exam results
- The government collects official statistics to use in policy-making. For example, statistics on births help the government to plan the number of school places for the future.
- There are two ways of collecting official statistics:
- Official Surveys - e.g the Census or the General Household Survey
- Registration - e.g. the law requires parents to register births
- There are two ways of collecting official statistics:
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