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Presenting census results

Presenting census results. Session 8 Subregional Workshop on Dissemination and Use of Population and Housing Census Results with a Gender Focus. Guidelines for tables, graphs and maps. Checklist: what makes a good map?. Presents the information simply, clearly and accurately

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Presenting census results

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  1. Presenting census results Session 8 Subregional Workshop on Dissemination and Use of Population and Housing Census Results with a Gender Focus

  2. Guidelines for tables, graphs and maps

  3. Checklist: what makes a good map? • Presents the information simply, clearly and accurately • Title – what, where and when • Legend and data labels • Source • Footnotes

  4. Men and cancer in the United Kingdom Source: Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom

  5. Tables • Presentation tables • Reference tables  databases

  6. Remember: user-friendly language! explanations, special notes, definitions, etc What, where and when e.g. Tourist arrivals, Samoa, March 2006 e.g. Statistics Samoa (2008)

  7. Checklist: what makes a good table? • Title describing what, where and when the data refers to • Source clearly identified • Headings and row labels are clear • Numbers aligned on the decimal point (or right-aligned in the absence of decimal places) • Titles, labels, notes, etc are in language that is easy for a broad audience to understand • Footnotes are used to explain any special differences in the data and for definitions where necessary • Use thousand separators

  8. Activity: what is wrong with this table? • We do not know which geographic area the data refer to. • The data source is not identified. • The values are centered rather than right-aligned. • The values should not be displayed with two decimal places (too much information). • The total values should have the same number of decimal places as the other values. • The abbreviation “n/a” is not explained. • The grey shading and the lines of the same size between each row and each column do not help to understand the different data presented in the table. • The table is unnecessarily spread across the width of the page.

  9. Checklist: what makes a good graph? • Grabs the reader’s attention • Presents the information simply, clearly and accurately • Does not mislead • Title • Axis labels and titles • Legend and data labels • Footnote • Source

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  11. Men hold most paid jobsPaid employment by industry and sex, Fiji, 2004 Source: Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics (2008)

  12. Importance of metadata

  13. What is metadata? • Labels, headings • Source • Footnotes • Dates • Methodological information • etc

  14. Source: Michael Beahan, Australian Bureau of Statistics

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