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A poll’s margin of error does not explain every uncertainty
A television poll number needs its sampling method, question, field dates and population.
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Geography and language
A price index of 120 is not a price of $120
A news chart with a base of one hundred describes an index, not a currency amount.
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Migration stock, arrivals and net migration answer different questions
A report about migrants living in a country is different from a report about people moving there during one year.
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Population pyramids: read the age bands and horizontal unit
A population pyramid can show numbers of people or shares of a population in age groups.
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Life expectancy in a news report is not a personal prediction
A country’s life expectancy at birth is a population statistic built from mortality patterns.
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Unemployment rate uses the labour force as its denominator
A news report’s unemployment rate is not the share of every resident without a job.
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