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Article Evaluation:

It talks about data collection across the US, but not how they collect it. The links and the citations work, when I click on something underlined that is a word that I am unfamiliar with, it will take me to another wiki page providing all the necessary information needed to understand that word. The subscript numbers all work, it takes me to the bottom and shows me the appropriate source. There seems to be some opposition towards confidentiality of the Census Bureau. It also seems that there is some concerns with the integrity of the Census Bureau, whether or not they are becoming politicized.

When the article listed all the Ongoing Surveys, I was surprised when there were not hyperlinks for all of the ongoing surveys, only some of them. There is a section in the article when it talks about the organizational structure of the Census Bureau, it talks about the titles in the bureau, but not the roles of each officer.

The section computer equipment definitely needs an update, the latest year of recorded information in that section is 1951.

I did not see anything on the talk page. This article relates to what we are learning in class because the Census Bureau is what collects and provides demographic data for the rest of the population. Most of the information in this article is objective, which is the same approach that we take in class when it comes to talking about demographic data.

Article Contributions
-Maybe I can find some information of the etymology of Cohort statistics

-I would also like to find some examples of cohort statics since there seems to be none there

-Maybe potentially add a recent cohort statistic as an example or an older one

-Also contribute to the definition of a cohort or add some imagery like graphs of data

Links to possible sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/cohort-statistics

https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=376 (statistical definition)

Frank, L. “EPIDEMIOLOGY:When an Entire Country Is a Cohort.” Science, vol. 287, no. 5462, 2000, pp. 2398–2399., doi:10.1126/science.287.5462.2398.  Generally good; however, a little more detail in some of your answers could make this evaluation even better - Prof Hammad 

Article Editions due weds 3/28
Cohort data can often times be more advantageous to demographers than period data. Because cohort data is honed to a specific time period, it is usually more accurate. It is more accurate due to the fact that it can be tuned to retrieve custom data for a specific study.

In addition, cohort data is not affected by tempo effects, unlike period data. On the contrary; cohort data can be disadvantageous in the sense that it can take a long amount of time to collect the data necessary for the cohort study. Another disadvantage of cohort studies is that it can be extremely costly to carry out, since the study will go on for a long period of time, demographers often require sufficient funds to fuel the study.

An example of a prospective cohort study is, for instance, if a demographer wanted to measure all the males births in the year 2018. The demographer would have to wait for the event to be over, the year 2018 must come to an end in order for the demographer to have all the necessary data.

On the other hand, an example of a retrospective cohort study is, if a demographer was examining a group of people born in year 1970 who have type 1 diabetes. The demographer would begin by looking at historical data. However, if the demographer was looking at ineffective data in attempts to deduce the source of type 1 diabetes, the demographers results would not be accurate.

 This section should be written exactly how you would want it written in the article - make sure to cite all of your data and consider whether or not you are using reliable sources - Prof H