NCERT Book Class 11 Economics (Statistics for Economics) Chapter 4 Presentation of Data

CHAPTER

Presentation of Data

• Textual or Descriptive presentation
Studying this chapter should • Tabular presentation
enable you to: • Diagrammatic presentation.
• present data using tables;
• represent data using appropriate
diagrams.
2. TEXTUAL PRESENTATION OF DATA
In textual presentation, data are
1. INTRODUCTION described within the text. When the
quantity of data is not too large this form
You have already learnt in previous of presentation is more suitable. Look
chapters how data are collected and at the following cases:
organised. As data are generally
voluminous, they need to be put in a Case 1
compact and presentable form. This In a bandh call given on 08 September
chapter deals with presentation of data 2005 protesting the hike in prices of
precisely so that the voluminous data petrol and diesel, 5 petrol pumps were
collected could be made usable readily found open and 17 were closed whereas
and are easily comprehended. There are 2 schools were closed and remaining 9
generally three forms of presentation of schools were found open in a town of
data: Bihar.