SADC Course in Statistics

Reviewing reports

Module I4, Session 9

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Learning Objectives

• Suggest improvements to the text – of a report

• Relate tables and graphs – to the text of a report

• Suggest improvements to tables and graphs– that correspond to an improved text

• Relate reporting a survey – to the principles of official statistics

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Activities

1. This presentation

2. Tanzania agriculture survey

3. A local survey report

4. Review

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Reminder of sessions 1 and 2

• Reading and writing reports

• You learn how to write reports

• By looking at examples of reports

• that have been produced

• Report is any product

• It may be a written report

• or a Powerpoint presentation

• or a play, or broadcast or a web page

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Learning Objectives from sessions 1 and 2

From these two sessions you

• Recognised the value of good reporting

• Identified characteristics of a good report

• Suggested different ways of reporting

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This session – review of reports• We take examples from within SADC

• First a large survey• called an agriculture sample census• from Tanzania

– We look at the technical report– And at some results– To help with a possible 2nd edition

• Then a local survey– which we relate to the principles of official

statistics

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Activity 2: Tanzania survey

• Methodology report exists

• There is a technical guide• plus questionnaire• very useful• that there is a pdf version• use it and give praise for that

• In Module B2 you reviewed– some tables and graphs

• This is partly repeated

• But also with the accompanying text• to review

• Designed for group work

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Principles of Official Statistics

• Principle 4 states the following:

“The statistical agencies are entitled to comment on erroneous interpretation and misuse of statistics.”

• Relevance here:

• If the local report is from the NSO then it should be available (on the web site???) and set a good example

• If from an NGO/University, etc• Then principle 4 encourages the NSO• to have a monitoring role – do they monitor?• They need a structure to do this

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Activity 3: A local survey

• (Trainer to complete slide and add further slides as necessary)

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