Kursus ini mendedahkan pelajar kepada penggunaan statistik dalam bidang sosial seperti demografi, sosio-ekonomi, keselamatan, alam sekitar, politik dan sebagainya. Penekanan utama diberikan kepada statistik rasmi yang merangkumi statistik penting dan statistik sosio-ekonomi. Statistik penting terdiri daripada sukatan-sukatan utama proses demografi iaitu kematian, fertiliti, morbiditi dan migrasi. Statistik sosio ekonomi merangkumi statistik pendapatan dan perbelanjaan isirumah, penyiasatan tenaga buruh dan statistik kesihatan turut diperkenalkan dengan pelbagai kaedah statistik yang bersesuaian seperti pembinaan indeks tertentu, sukatan kesejahteraan sosial, kesihatan, ekonomi dan kaedah lain bersesuaian.
This course exposes students to the use of statistics in social fields such as demographics, socio-economic, safety, environment, politics and so on. The main emphasis is on official statistics which include important statistics and socio-economic statistics. Important statistics comprise the major metrics of demographic processes such as death, fertility, morbidity and migration. Socio-economic statistics comprising household income and expenditure statistics, labor force surveys and health statistics have also been introduced with various appropriate statistical methods such as the construction of certain indices, social welfare measures, health, economics and other appropriate methods.
- Lecturer: DR. ZALINA BINTI MOHD ALI