September 26

Visions

Population statistics reflect and construct particular _______ important to the modern state

Skewed

Methodology is often _______ which impacts data

Data

Policies are often based on _______

Who

How we use the data depends on ______ decides what is measured

Colonized

Measures of quality life often take a _______ view

Unsuccessful

Indigenous populations dont necessarily have homeownership so they are view are _______

Methods

Concerns the math

Méthodologies

The socio-political-culture that shapes and enacts statistics that is problematic

Remove

Solution is to ______ socio-political-culture biases

Use

As scholars and students (educated), we must work for proper data ______

Quantitative, quanlitative

We must use a complementarity of ______ and _______ methodologies

Contextual

Quantitative methodologies present ______ information, which is very important

Individuals

Demography aggregates _______

Small

Demography often ignores numerically ______ groups

Complexity, relations

Demography always misses some ______ of our social ______

Groups

However, we can still talk about smaller _____

Meaningful, listen

As a solution, we must group people in ________ ways and ______ to particular groups

Reliable

We must always go to the ________ source

Alternatives

Government statistical agencies are not free from problems but are better than _______

Transparency

Major international agencies such as the World Bank offer ______

Aggregators, collect

We can't use data _____ because they don't _____ their data themselves

Source, countries

We must use the same ______ for similar items because of differences among _______

Vital statistics

Event registration systems

Official, occurs

Vital statistics are registered with _______ offices and are recorded when the event ______

Examples of vital statistics

Births, deaths, marriage, divorce

All

In Canada, almost _____ birth are registered but this varies between countries

2.5

The typical under covered population is ____%

12

Young men are higher levels of undercoverage: _____%

Daughters, rules

There is more undercoverage among young men because households are more likely to count their _______ than their sons and because men are less likely to follow the _____ and fill it out

Interviewer effects

What you respond is influenced by who is asking to either impress the person or protect yourself (not so more relevant nowadays)