The purposes of statistics

it most countries the biggest employer of statisticians is the government, which collects numerical information about all aspects of life, the information collected in the form of human statistics , of financial statistics (such as the rate of inflation), and on other aspects of life is regularly reported in newspapers and on the news.

 In addition to these population statistics, sample statistics are also reported. For example, market research agencies also collect numerical information which  can dominate the news in advance of a general election. As an example. A single issue of the Tans contained the flowing:

Drink- drive statistics .

Mothers feelings about going back to work.

Numbers of visitors to Britain subdivkled by nationality .

A breakdown of British Rail assets.

Pages of statistics on stocks and shares. Mach more interesting pages of sports statistics.

World weather statistics (Source: the subject statistics is conceraed with trying to make sense of all this numerical information.