Question

Do you think Statistics can be used to solve societal problem? Justify your answer with a practical example. Kindly support your answer with References

Answer 1

Yes, statistics can be used to solve societal problem. Societal issue many be depend upon human population, its health and impact to the society, economically status etc. So, statistics is described in various area of societal problems. These problem well analyzed by health statistics, official statistics, social statistics. Thus, importance of statistics is policy formulation and planning for future development to lives better life for human being. Availability and appropriate use of statistics translate into better opportunity for people through providing evidence as a base for policy and decision-making for a nation, society and citizens. For example, Unemployment. Statistics is used to calculate the level of unemployment 4.7%, the level 10 years ago 9%, the correlations between unemployment and education, or health, or the cost of incarceration, or eye color is also observed. So statistics is used extensively to describe social problems and their correlations to various other aspects of social structure and individuals.

Scates, D. E. (1943). Statistics—The Mathematics for social problems. The Mathematics Teacher, 36(2), 68-78.

Banda, J. (2003, May). Current status of social statistics: An overview of issues and concerns. In Expert Group Meeting on Setting the Scope of Social Statistics, United Nations Statistics Division, New York (pp. 6-9).