official statistics

Question 1

what are official stats?

Answer 1

produced by government or official bodies who obtain data wwhich sociologists use for secondary data

Question 2

what are some practical issues of official stats?

Answer 2

free source of lots of data
easy to compare data
able to go into the past and compare before and after
some statistics may not benefit the researcher

Question 3

what are some theoretical issues of statistics?

Answer 3

able to gain large amount of information and is therefore representative
can be reliable