Statistics

Set A

1. How old is our teacher?

2. Is the vehicle of the Mayor of our city/town/
municipality bigger than the vehicle used by the
President of the Philippines?
3. How many days are there in December?
4. Does the Principal of the school has a post graduate
degree?
5. How much does the Barangay Captain receive as
allowance?
6. What is the weight of my smallest classmate?
Set B

1. How old are the people residing in our town?

2. Do dogs eat more than cats?
3. Does it rain more in our country than in Thailand?
4. Do math teachers earn more than science teachers?
5. How many books do my classmates usually bring to
school?
6. What is the proportion of Filipino children aged 0 to
5 years who are underweight or overweight for their
age?
STATISTICS is defined as a science that studies data
to be able to make a decision.
STATISTICS as a science involves the methods of
collecting, processing, summarizing and analyzing data
in order to provide answers or solutions to an inquiry.

STATISTICS enable us to
- characterize persons, objects, situations, and
phenomena;
- explain relationships among variables;
- formulate objective assessments and comparisons;
and, more importantly
- make evidence-based decisions and predictions.
 Statistical Process in Solving a Problem

- Planning or designing the collection of data to answer

statistical questions in a way that maximizes
information content and minimizes bias;
- Collecting the data as required in the plan;
- Verifying the quality of the data after they were
collected;
- Summarizing the information extracted from the data
- Examining the summary statistics so that insight and
meaningful information can be produced to support
decision-making or solutions to the question or problem
at hand.
Key Points:

- Difference between questions that could be and those

that could not answered using Statistics.

- Statistics is a science that studies data.

- There are many uses of Statistics but its main use is

in decision-making.

- Logical decisions or solutions to a problem could be

attained through a statistical process.
 Data
Collection
Data are facts and figures that are presented,
collected and analyzed. Data are either numeric or non-
numeric and must be contextualized.
3, red, F, 156, 4, 65, 50, 25, 1, M, 9, 40, 68, blue,
78, 168, 69, 3, F, 6, 9, 45, 50, 20, 200, white, 2,
pink, 160, 5, 60, 100, 15, 9, 8, 41, 65, black, 68,
165, 59, 7, 6, 35, 45,

- Not Data
To contextualize data, we must identify its six W’s or
to put meaning on the data, we must know the following
W’s of the data:
1. Who? Who provided the data?
2. What? What are the information from the
respondents and What is the unit of measurement used
for each of the information (if there are any)?
3. When? When was the data collected?
4. Where? Where was the data collected?
5. Why? Why was the data collected?
6. HoW? HoW was the data collected?
Key Points:

- Providing correct information in a government data

collection activity is a responsibility of every citizen in
the country.
- Data confidentiality is important in a data collection
activity.
- Census is collecting data from all possible
respondents.
- Data to be collected must be clarified before the
actual data collection.
- Data must be contextualized by answering six W-
questions.