1. Presenting census results Session 8 Subregional Workshop on Dissemination and Use of Population and Housing Census Results with a Gender Focus

3. Guidelines for tables, graphs and maps

4. Checklist: what makes a good map? Presents the information simply, clearly and accurately Title – what, where and when Legend and data labels Source Footnotes

5. Men and cancer in the United Kingdom Source: Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom

8. Tables  Presentation tables  Reference tables  databases

9. What, where and when e.g. Tourist arrivals, Samoa, March 2006 e.g. Statistics Samoa (2008) Remember: user-friendly language! explanations, special notes, definitions, etc

10. Checklist: what makes a good table? Title describing what, where and when the data refers to Source clearly identified Headings and row labels are clear Numbers aligned on the decimal point (or right-aligned in the absence of decimal places) Titles, labels, notes, etc are in language that is easy for a broad audience to understand Footnotes are used to explain any special differences in the data and for definitions where necessary Use thousand separators

11. Thousands 1 320 1 670 1 830 1324567 1673985 1829456 1 320 000 1 670 000 1 830 000

12. 93.2 1045.0 385.6 93.2 1045 385.6

14. Activity: what is wrong with this table?  We do not know which geographic area the data refer to.  The data source is not identified.  The values are centered rather than right-aligned.  The values should not be displayed with two decimal places (too much information).  The total values should have the same number of decimal places as the other values.  The abbreviation “n/a” is not explained.  The grey shading and the lines of the same size between each row and each column do not help to understand the different data presented in the table.  The table is unnecessarily spread across the width of the page.

19. Checklist: what makes a good graph? Grabs the reader’s attention Presents the information simply, clearly and accurately Does not mislead Title Axis labels and titles Legend and data labels Footnote Source

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39. Men hold most paid jobs Paid employment by industry and sex, Fiji, 2004 Source: Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics (2008)

40. Importance of metadata

41. What is metadata?  Labels, headings  Source  Footnotes  Dates  Methodological information  etc

42. Source: Michael Beahan, Australian Bureau of Statistics