Statistics ?

• Numeral data

• Forms : table – pie chart – bar chart – line graph

•  Interest :

- Process = increasing / decreasing / stable

- Comparison  in space / in time

- Distribution  in space / in time

How to?

• Identifying the key information

                            - Topic using the title

                            - Nature of the information  using the tables’ titles and the labels

* Information

* Location

* Time

• Identifying the general trend

- Increase

- Decrease

- Stable

• Pick out patterns, anomalies

• Quote figures + data