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Sociology AS Statistical Data providers
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- 1Secondary Data (quantitative) which sociologists can use.1. Office of National Statistics (ONS) -
Census
2. General Household Survey (GHS)
3. Social Trends - 2ONS Office of National Statistics-Responsible for conducting the Census.
-Questionnaires sent to household every 10yrs.
-Closed questions +govt studies.
-Representative of UK population.
-Must by law be completed and returned by post(prepaid).
-Research into births,deaths,marriages.
-Generated using administrative records from local and county-based authorities.
- Reliable and valid because legal requirements e.g. birth, death, marriage registers. - 3Official statistics General Household Survey (GHS)Conducts interviews around 9.000 households a year, 16.000 respondends.
Largely quantitative data (Statistical numerical)
Govt dep and documents brought together into - 4Non-official statistics use by SociologistsNot owned by government, independent companies, researchers, universities.
e.g.Ipsos Mori (independent research org). Data which can be bought or downloaded. does work for govt + private companies e.g. Nokia + toyota
Not entierly quantitative data.
Methods: large sample size and surveys of one kind or another.
Face to face interviews, telephone surveys, postal questionnaires , online surveys.
CONS: work difficult to replicate
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