how people collect data and problems

how people collect data and problems

1. How its collected

   • CENSUSES
     • every 10 years
     • Mandatory
     • Living conditions
     • Lifestyle
   • Civil registration
     • another name: vital events
       • births
       • mirrages
       • death
     • registered by law
     • collected by REGISTER GENERAL OF SCOTLAND
     • easier to monitor population change
   • National, European and global surveys
     • surveys
       • population
       • economic
       • social
     • collected and shared by
       • office for national statistics
       • scottish office
       • Eurostat
       • united nations
       • UNESCO

2. PROBLMS

   • WAR
     • spend money on military
   • ACCESS
     • difficult to reach
       • more expensive
       • e.g botswana mountains
   • LANGUAGE
     • low levels of literacy
     • lots of languages and dialects
       • E.g India, parts of Africa
   • IMMIGRANTS
     • Nomadic/travellers
       • E.g Fulani or Sahal
       • Recorded twice or not at all
     • ILLEGAL immigrants
       • deported
       • unrecorded
     • Rural-urban migration
       • difficult to track
       • vanish statistically into slum areas
         • e.g city on Mumbai
           • 300 families everyday
   • MONEY
     • Expensive
       • no shit
     • 1.7 mil numerators in India in 1991
   • Ethnicity Human Nature
     • various interpretations of q's
     • sensitive q's
       • homosexuality - illegal in some countries
       • disability
     • fear and intimidation
     • suspicion + distrust
     • under registration
       • social/religious reasons
         • e.g jordan majority male, females left out due to inequality