Activity: Exercise 4 Descriptive Statistics

Instruction: Download population data at the barangay level of your respective

provinces from Philippines Statistics Authority
(https://www.psa.gov.ph/content/highlights-philippine-population-2015-census-
population). Then, following the instructional video from the course webpage, calculate
different descriptive statistics for each municipality of your province. Interpret your
results.

Figure 1. Camarines Norte Population as of 2015 based from the Philippine

Statistics Authority

CAMARINES NORTE POPULATION

120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
Table 1. Generated Descriptive Statistics for the Province of Camarines Norte
(2015)

Descriptive Statistics for Province of Camarines Norte

(2015)

Mean 48609.41667
Standard Error 8587.501429
Median 42251
Mode 0
Standard Deviation 29747.97757
Sample Variance 884942169.5
Kurtosis 0.289163675
Skewness 0.870704723
Range 94403
Minimum 10396
Maximum 104799
Sum 583313
Count 12

Data Interpretation:

According to the 2015 data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), Camarines Norte has a
total population of 583,313. The Capital of the Province which is the City of Daet has the highest
(Maximum) population in the province with 104,799 while the Municipality of San Vicente
having the lowest (Minimum) with only 10,396. This mainly explains the high value of the range
which is the difference between the highest value and the lowest value. One of the main factors
why Daet City has the highest population in the province because the city is the Capital of the
Province and is the center for trade, business, religious, cultural, industrial, commercial,
education, and financial attract migrants to the City. The generated descriptive statistics of the
Province shows that the standard deviation for the Population in the province is 29747.97757. A
high standard deviation shows that there is a large variation in the group being studies. It also
shows that the standard deviation is mainly affected by outliers which also affects the mean. In
this case, the high population of Daet City with regards to the lowest population of San Vicente
greatly affects the result of standard deviation. In terms of kurtosis and skewness, the 2015
population of Camarines Norte has a kurtosis of 0.289163675which indicates a low kurtosis.
Kurtosis is a measure of whether the data are heavy-tailed or light-tailed relative to a normal
distribution. A low kurtosis means that the data has light tails or lack of outliers. In terms of
Skewness, the 2015 population data of Camarines Norte has a skewness of 0.870704723.
Skewness is a measure of symmetry, or more precisely, the lack of symmetry. A distribution, or
data set, is symmetric if it looks the same to the left and right of the center point. The skewness of
the given data is near zero which means that it is a symmetric data and a normal distribution.