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MAKING DATA MEANINGFUL: A guide to writing stories about numbers

 

About this guide

 

This guide is designed as a practical tool to help managers, statisticians and media relations officers use text, tables, graphics and other information to bring statistics to life using effective writing techniques.

It contains suggestions, guidelines and examples – but not golden rules.

This document recognizes that there are many practical and cultural differences among statistical offices, and that approaches vary from country to country.

 

 

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