ACC 414 Lecture Notes - Karla Homolka, Infant Mortality, Social Accounting
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Example of descriptive, static study, number of murders in toronto in 2009. Population in scarborough, 2010, 593, 000 people lived in scarborough. Trend example of trend divorce rate in canada from 1952 2002 climb from 15% to 50%. It doesn"t attempt to tell you why divorce rates increase. It just gives you number many reasons though. One of the reasons is the women movement is that women have more independence, economic independence, and don"t need to be married to survive. it is easy to get out of marriage today. At one time divorce was almost impossible to attain. Explanatory studies: try to explain why things happen or try to explain relationships between what we call variables. So for instance, how can we explain university attendance. One of the best explanations is parent income is associated with university attendance. Higher the income of parents, the more likely their children are to attend university.