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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
132456716739851829456
1 320 0001 670 0001 830 000
93.21045.0
385.6
93.21045385.6
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
0102030405060708090
100
15- 19 20- 24 25- 29 30- 34 35- 39 40- 44 45- 49 50- 54 55- 59 60- 64 65- 69 70+Age (years)
%
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
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
2019
90
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
%
FrancePortugalSpain
Source: UNECE Statistical Database
Unemployment rate, 1990-2008
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008
%
Source: UNECE Statistical Database
Spain
France
Portugal
Annual Greenhouse Gas Emmissions by Sector
3.4
10.3
11.3
12.5
16.8
21.3
14.0
10.0
0 5 10 15 20 25
Waste disposal and treatment
Land use and biomass burning
Residential, commercial and other sources
Fossil fuel retrieval, processing and distribution
Agricultural byproducts
Transportation fuels
Industrial processes
Power stations
%
1
2
3
4
5
1 2 3 4 5
My busy chart
10
25
15
0
10
20
30
A B C
Series1 My clearer chart
10
15
25
0
10
20
30
A B C
Adolescent fertility rate, 2006
0
10
20
30
40
Albania Georgia Greece Hungary Romania Serbia
Adolescent fertility rate, 2006
0
10
20
30
40
Greece Albania Hungary Serbia Romania Georgia
Adolescent fertility rate, 2006
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Greece Albania Hungary Serbia Romania Georgia
0 5 000 10 000 15 000 20 000 25 000
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
