Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling a particular group of people, evaluating a particular subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors. Often, social scientists are employed in the evaluation of the quality of services of a particular group or organization, in analyzing behaviors of groups of people in their environment and special situations, or even in determing the wants or needs of people through statistical sampling. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.