The list of questions that cover the content of a work program of discipline

1. The subject of statistics. The main categories of statistics.

2. Patterns of mass processes, their types and mechanism of formation.

3. Statistical population, population units as a carriers of characteristics of the phenomenon.

4. Statistical characteristics, their variation, the types of measurement scales.

5. Stages of statistical research.

6. Features of statistical methodology.

7. Statistical rows as an informational database of analysis of patterns.

8. The organization of statistics in Ukraine.

9. Essence, sources and organizational forms of statistical observation.

10. Programme-methodological and organizational issues of plan of observation.

11. Types of observations depending on the degree of coverage of primary data and on aggregate time of recording the facts. Methods of observation.

12. Errors of observation, data control.

13. Essence and task of the statistical combining.

14. Classification and grouping.

15. Tasks and types of statistical groupings.

16. Statistical tables, their types and rules of construction.

17. The role of graphs in the analysis of socio-economic phenomena.

18. Absolute statistical quantities, their units of measurement.

19. Relative values​​, their types according to analytical function.

20. Mean values​​, their types and conditions of use.

21. Arithmetic mean, its basic features.

22. Harmonic mean.

22. Terms of use of chronological mean and geometric mean.

23. Rows of distribution as an information base of measuring of patterns of distribution.

24. Characteristics of distribution center: mean, mode, median, their relations. Quantile distribution: quartile, decile, quintile. Their role in the description of patterns of distribution.

25. Absolute measures of variation: the range of variation, the mean linear and standard deviations.

26. Coefficients of variation, their role in the statistical analysis.

27. Types of dispersions. Rule of decomposition of dispersions.

28. Features of forms of distribution: symmetry and kurtosis. Coefficients of localization and concentration.

29. Evaluation of similarity of structures of different populations.

30. Assessment of intensity of structural changes.

31. Methodological principles of analysis of dynamic rows. Types of dynamic rows. Absolute and relative characteristics of intensity of the dynamics and of their relations.

32. Average absolute growth and the average growth rate.

33. Comparative analysis of dynamic rows, the coefficients of acceleration (deceleration), advance coefficient. The essence of coefficients and their terms of use.

34. The essence and functions of indexes in the analysis of socio-economic phenomena.

35. Methodological principles of construction of aggregate indexes.

36. Aggregate form of indexes as the basis. Weights.

37. Average weighted indexes, bringing them to the aggregate form.

38. Interrelation between the conjugate indexes. Decomposition of the absolute increase of the effective indicator by the factors.

39. Indexes averages of: variable composition, fixed structure and structural changes; The relations between indexes.

40. The territorial indexes.