Presenting census results Session 8 Subregional Workshop on Dissemination and Use of Population and...

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 accuratelyTitle – what, where and whenLegend and data labelsSourceFootnotes

Men and cancer in the United Kingdom

Source: Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom

Tables

Presentation tables Reference tables

databases

What, where and whene.g. Tourist arrivals, Samoa, March 2006

e.g. Statistics Samoa (2008)

Remember: user-friendly language!

explanations, special notes, definitions, etc

Checklist: what makes a good table?

Title describing what, where and when the data refers toSource clearly identifiedHeadings and row labels are clearNumbers 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 understandFootnotes are used to explain any special differences in the data and for definitions where necessaryUse thousand separators

Thousands1 3201 6701 830

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Manufacturing sales in Canada, provinces and territories, J une-J uly 2008Seasonally adjusted

June 2008r J uly 2008p J une-J uly 2008% change1

Canada 52 685 54 105 2.7Newfoundland and Labrador 692 674 -2.5Prince Edward Island 123 115 -6.1New Brunswick 1 914 1 872 -2.2Quebec 13 019 13 280 2.0Ontario 23 902 25 015 4.7Manitoba 1 360 1 445 6.2Saskatchewan 1 079 1 108 2.8Alberta 6 298 6 316 0.3British Colombia 3 347 3 306 -1.2Yukon 3 4 45.5Northwest Territories and Nunavut 4 3 -27.4r Revisedp Preliminary1 The percentage change is calculated from data in thousands of Canadian dollarsSource: Statistics Canada

$ millions

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.

Economic activity rateCzech Republic, 2008Age (years) Women Men

15-19 6.3 8.420-24 44.4 60.825-29 66.4 90.930-34 66.0 96.835-39 80.0 97.640-44 91.0 96.545-49 92.5 94.650-54 87.7 91.755-59 55.7 84.860-64 15.1 40.765-69 6.5 13.370+ 2.5 5.9

Source: UNECE Statistical Database

Economic activity rate, Czech Republic, 2008

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%

Women Men

Source: UNECE Statistical Database

Checklist: what makes a good graph?

Grabs the reader’s attentionPresents the information simply, clearly and accuratelyDoes not misleadTitleAxis labels and titlesLegend and data labelsFootnoteSource

Unemployment rate, 1990-2008

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Source: UNECE Statistical Database

Unemployment rate, 1990-2008

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Source: UNECE Statistical Database

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Annual Greenhouse Gas Emmissions by Sector

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Residential, commercial and other sources

Fossil fuel retrieval, processing and distribution

Agricultural byproducts

Transportation fuels

Industrial processes

Power stations

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Adolescent fertility rate, 2006

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Adolescent fertility rate, 2006

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Adolescent fertility rate, 2006

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Agriculture, forestry and fishing

Electricity, gas and water

Mining and quarrying

Finance, insurance, real estate and business services

Construction

Transport, storage and communications

Manufacturing

Wholesale and retail trades, restaurants and hotels

Community, social and personal services

Women

Men

Men hold most paid jobsPaid employment by industry and sex, Fiji, 2004

Source: Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics (2008)

Importance of metadata

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

Source: Michael Beahan, Australian Bureau of Statistics