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THE HERALD Wednesday August 1990 Page Statistics can reveal insights By TOM MITCHELL Communications Division Statistics Canada OTTAWA Numbers are imper sonal When Statistics Canada reports on social programs such as low income or unemployment you find out the numbers of persons fected but little about the factual hardships they faced and whether they recovered This gap between poverty or job loss as presented in cold and clinical language by statisticians and what these social catastrophes mean in human terms will never disappear But statisticians are finding that the stud of individual experiences with such social pro blems taken at several points over time can provide new insights As one would expect there is a high powered statistical name for this new kind of information longitudinal microdata Simply stated it means returning to the same data source a single group of people househoulds farms or business establishments several times after the initial contact see ing how things have changed as time has passed This kind of statistical bird dogging an turn up information that provided by the more usual cross section surveys For example it can pinpoint the events that triggered a descent into paver show how long the condition lasted and what happened to enable a recovery Keeping tabs on individuals exposed to a health risk could show its effects over the years Watching the history of small firms could show the number of jobs created as they mature and how their prodi and pro fitability developed over the years Cross sectional surveys do not produce this kind of information The individuals or firms par ticipating in each survey change over time Even in rotating surveys such as those for the labour force or employment payroll and hours individual respondents are in for just six months a year not long enough to monitor change properly An example from the S points up the value of data Information on U S poverty Inthe 1970s the numbers and characteristics of poor families 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