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25 numbers every journalist should know

Tom Johnson
Friends:

My apologies for the cross-posts, but....

For an upcoming presentation, I'm putting together a list of the 25 basic
statistics every journalist should know, at least withing a range of plus or
minus 5 percent.  This list would, ideally, be a template that could be
given to journos in any country so that he/she would always be ready to put
many stories in context.  Below is a rough beginning.  I wonder if you might
have some data points of a similar vein that you find useful?

THE 25 NUMBERS EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD KNOW
*) The world's population
*) Your nation's population and as a percent of the world
*) Your state/province/district population and as a percent of your nation
*) Your city's pop. and as a percent of your state/province/district
*) The percent of change for all of the above in the past 10 years
*) The current budget of your nation/state/province/district/city government
*) The sub-sections of the above budgets for health, education, public
safety, infrastructure and their relative percentages
*) The world's live birth rates and same for your
nation/state/province/district/city
*) Average life expectancy for males and females in your
nation/state/province/district/city
*) Average family size for your nation/state/province/district/city
*) Per capita and per family annual income for your
nation/state/province/district/city
*) Average years of education for males and females in the world and your
nation/state/province/district/city

Many thanks.  I'll post the roundup of the suggestions.

-Tom Johnson
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Jenny Quillien
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25 numbers every journalist should know

Jenny Quillien
Hi Tom
I'd put in unemployment.  Worldwise it is something like 1/3 ( if that
isn't gun powder I don't know what is)
off on vacation hope to see you at the end of the month.  Jenny

At 02:17 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote:

>Friends:
>
>My apologies for the cross-posts, but....
>
>For an upcoming presentation, I'm putting together a list of the 25 basic
>statistics every journalist should know, at least withing a range of plus
>or minus 5 percent.  This list would, ideally, be a template that could be
>given to journos in any country so that he/she would always be ready to
>put many stories in context.  Below is a rough beginning.  I wonder if you
>might have some data points of a similar vein that you find useful?
>
>THE 25 NUMBERS EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD KNOW
>*) The world's population
>*) Your nation's population and as a percent of the world
>*) Your state/province/district population and as a percent of your nation
>*) Your city's pop. and as a percent of your state/province/district
>*) The percent of change for all of the above in the past 10 years
>*) The current budget of your nation/state/province/district/city government
>*) The sub-sections of the above budgets for health, education, public
>safety, infrastructure and their relative percentages
>*) The world's live birth rates and same for your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Average life expectancy for males and females in your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Average family size for your nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Per capita and per family annual income for your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Average years of education for males and females in the world and your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>
>Many thanks.  I'll post the roundup of the suggestions.
>
>-Tom Johnson
>--
>==========================================
>J. T. Johnson
>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
><http://www.analyticjournalism.com>www.analyticjournalism.com
>505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
><http://www.jtjohnson.com>http://www.jtjohnson.com 
><mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>tom at jtjohnson.com
>
>"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
>To change something, build a new model that makes the
>existing model obsolete."
>                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
>==========================================
>============================================================
>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Robert Holmes
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Robert Holmes
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How does any of that help me get a better photo of Britney's cellulite or
write the accompanying story?

Robert

On 8/7/06, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

>
> Friends:
>
> My apologies for the cross-posts, but....
>
> For an upcoming presentation, I'm putting together a list of the 25 basic
> statistics every journalist should know, at least withing a range of plus or
> minus 5 percent.  This list would, ideally, be a template that could be
> given to journos in any country so that he/she would always be ready to put
> many stories in context.  Below is a rough beginning.  I wonder if you might
> have some data points of a similar vein that you find useful?
>
> THE 25 NUMBERS EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD KNOW
> *) The world's population
> *) Your nation's population and as a percent of the world
> *) Your state/province/district population and as a percent of your nation
> *) Your city's pop. and as a percent of your state/province/district
> *) The percent of change for all of the above in the past 10 years
> *) The current budget of your nation/state/province/district/city
> government
> *) The sub-sections of the above budgets for health, education, public
> safety, infrastructure and their relative percentages
> *) The world's live birth rates and same for your
> nation/state/province/district/city
> *) Average life expectancy for males and females in your
> nation/state/province/district/city
> *) Average family size for your nation/state/province/district/city
> *) Per capita and per family annual income for your
> nation/state/province/district/city
> *) Average years of education for males and females in the world and your
> nation/state/province/district/city
>
> Many thanks.  I'll post the roundup of the suggestions.
>
> -Tom Johnson
> --
> ==========================================
> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com               tom at jtjohnson.com
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
>                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
> ==========================================
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
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Jim Rutt
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some off the top of the head

*) per capita water (gallons per day) and energy consumption
(kilowatts per year) in your country and how they rank versus other
countries and global average
*) water consumption % by sector: industrial, agricultural, domestic
*) proportion of oil, gas, coal that is imported in your country
*) proportion of imports of all food consumed ($ and KCals)
*) energy consumed per unit of GDP (kilowatts per $ of gdp) and comparison
*) per cent of GDP spent on defense and national ranking
*) crime rate matrix: gender by race/ethnicity by age range
*) per capita income matrix: gender by race/ethnicity by age range
*) current level of forestation of your country and what it was 100 years ago.
*) geographic size of your land mass of the earth, your country,
state, county, town
*) basic unit conversion from mass to volume: water = about 64lb per cubic foot



At 04:17 PM 8/7/2006, you wrote:

>Friends:
>
>My apologies for the cross-posts, but....
>
>For an upcoming presentation, I'm putting together a list of the 25
>basic statistics every journalist should know, at least withing a
>range of plus or minus 5 percent.  This list would, ideally, be a
>template that could be given to journos in any country so that
>he/she would always be ready to put many stories in context.  Below
>is a rough beginning.  I wonder if you might have some data points
>of a similar vein that you find useful?
>
>THE 25 NUMBERS EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD KNOW
>*) The world's population
>*) Your nation's population and as a percent of the world
>*) Your state/province/district population and as a percent of your nation
>*) Your city's pop. and as a percent of your state/province/district
>*) The percent of change for all of the above in the past 10 years
>*) The current budget of your nation/state/province/district/city government
>*) The sub-sections of the above budgets for health, education,
>public safety, infrastructure and their relative percentages
>*) The world's live birth rates and same for your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Average life expectancy for males and females in your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Average family size for your nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Per capita and per family annual income for your
>nation/state/province/district/city
>*) Average years of education for males and females in the world and
>your nation/state/province/district/city
>
>Many thanks.  I'll post the roundup of the suggestions.
>
>-Tom Johnson
>--
>==========================================
>J. T. Johnson
>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
><http://www.analyticjournalism.com>www.analyticjournalism.com
>505.577.6482(c)                                 505.473.9646(h)
><http://www.jtjohnson.com>http://www.jtjohnson.com 
><mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>tom at jtjohnson.com
>
>"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
>To change something, build a new model that makes the
>existing model obsolete."
>                                                    -- Buckminster Fuller
>==========================================
>============================================================
>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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