Class 11 Economics — Chapter 3: Organisation of Data

What you'll learn

• ▸Purpose of Data Organisation
• ▸Raw Data
• ▸Chronological Classification
• ▸Spatial Classification
• ▸Qualitative Classification
• ▸Quantitative Classification
• ▸Distinction between Qualitative and Quantitative Classification

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- CHAPTER 3 11098CH03 Organisation of Data Studying this chapter should enable you to: • classify the data for further statistical analysis; • distinguish between quantitative and qualitative classification; • prepare a frequency distribution table; • know the technique of forming classes; • be familiar with the method of tally marking; • differentiate between univariate and bivariate frequency distributions. census and sampling. In this chapter, you will know how the data, that you collected, are to be classified. The purpose of classifying raw data is to bring order in them so that they can be subjected to further statistical analysis easily. Have you ever observed your local junk dealer or kabadiwallah to whom you sell old newspapers, broken household items, empty glass bottles, plastics, etc? He purchases these things from you and sells them to those who recycle them. But with so much junk in his shop it would be very difficult for him to manage his t…

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7. A classification of data based on time, such as years, months, or weeks, is known as what? Get Solution →
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Did you know?

• 💡 The Sumerians developed one of the earliest known writing systems to organize economic data.
• 💡 More data has been created in the last two years than in all of previous human history.
• 💡 The Dewey Decimal System organizes almost all library books into ten main categories.
• 💡 Your brain constantly sorts vast amounts of sensory data, making sense of the world.
• 💡 Some Japanese towns require residents to sort their trash into over 40 different categories.

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