One advantage of using official statistics in sociological research is it is easy to find. Researcher can find the it in the public libraries and on the internet, researcher does not need to provide such a big amount of money since it is cheap.
Another advantage of using official statistics in sociological research is it is highly valid and moslty accurate information especially for the ‘hard’ statistics because they have the same definiton. For example : birth rates and death rates.
One disadvantage of ussing official statistics in sociological research is they are not really accurate especially for the ‘soft’ statistics because they have problem in deffinitions so it cause the statistics might not valid because a person that working in the governments might have different definition compared to the sociologist. For example : divorce rates and unemployment rates.
Another advantage of using official statistics in sociological research is the governments and politicans might manipulate the statistics. They do this because they do not want to look bad in front of public.
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