Displaying Population Data

A2 Geography

Geographers and demographers can portray pop’n data in a variety of ways

• Each method can be used at almost any scale and it’s important as far as your exams are concerned to be acquainted with each

Density Maps

Topological Maps

Distribution Map

Choropleth Map

Activity 1

Draw a table and write down the pro’s and con’s for each mapping type

Are there any other methods you can think of that could be used?

Age Sex Pyramids

• Portrays gender and age.• They are a good indicator of development• Used to study the demographic

characteristics of individual groups in an area

• Data should always be expressed as percentages of total pop’n and not as absolute numbers

Other Graphs

• Line Graphs

Used to show rates of changed rates of growth

 

• Bar Graphs

Often used to illustrate time series for set places

 

• Pie Chart

Use to measure totals out of a total percentage

 

A final Thought

• Louis Moss the father of the UK census, a committed socialist. worked for the Ministry of Information and was one of a number of social scientists known as "Cooper's Snoopers" - named after the wartime Minister of Information Alfred Duff-Cooper.

• Duff-Cooper is said by literary experts to have been the model for the original "Big Brother" in George Orwell's novel 1984. His Ministry of Information, which during the war had an official propaganda role, was the model of the Ministry of Truth in the powerful satire.