Demographics+Lesson

Demographics play a major role in decision-making in the business world. Many decision are made based on the characteristics of the people who live there. The government doles out money and grants based on the demographics of an area. One area may get more money to fix an important road because of the demographics of the people who travel on it. Now what are demographics? The first thing that you will do in this lesson is to take a survey so that we can find out some of the demographics of your class. Then we will review the survey and continue from there.


 * 1) Take the following survey Period 2Period5/6 Period 11


 * On Tuesday and Wednesday:**
 * 1) All classes are now to go to [|Search your zip code]
 * 2) Type in your zip code and review the results from your area
 * 3) Now answer the following questions:
 * 4) Why do people keep these statistics?
 * 5) What were the most interesting statistics you found about the area?
 * 6) How could you use this information to make money?
 * 7) Now pick another 5 digit zip code and compare your area to the other area
 * 8) Write a two paragraph analysis of your findings:
 * 9) Include in the first paragraph similarities
 * 10) Include in the second paragraph differences


 * On Thursday you will work on the following assignments:**