Quantitative and Qualitative Sources

Question 1

representation is

Answer 1

how a place is portrayed or ‘seen’ in society

Question 2

give examples, reliability, usefulness and any other details on the following data type:

statistics (censuses)

Answer 2

• UK census has detailed social and economic characteristics for the last 200 years
• ‘close-up’ geographical units can reveal basic information on places such as demographic makeup
• censuses provide large-scale quantitative data
• the Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducts a survey every 10 years
• the use of quantifiable data such as statistics is not very objective as people will only use certain facts for their particular purpose, meaning the data becomes subjective
• quantitative data such as this also tells us very little about the human experience of a place and what it is like to live there