Working with statistics

Today we had English all day at school. The day contained an oral presentation and some useful statistic work in pairs, which I will post below.

1. Look at the UK diagram on page 110. What are the two largest groups? what are the two smallest groups.  Did anything surprise you about the order of size of ethnic groups in the United Kingdom?
   

The two largest group on the diagram was the white ethnic group having a percent of 87.5 and the indian ethnic group on 2.7%. The two smallest groups was the ethnic group called other black on the diagram and they had a percent of 0.2 and other asian having a percent of 0.7.  I wasn't really surprised by the diagram because this was expected from UK. I have always known that they don't have a large number of immigrants and ethnic groups compared to how big the ethnic white group population is.  The only weird thing with this diagram is that the last column is referred to as other black, what does this mean? They have already mentioned black african and black caribbean

Image retrieved from our textbook

2. Look at the USA diagram on page 110. What are the two largest groups? what are the two smallest groups ? did anything surprise you about the order of size of ancestry groups in the USA?

The largest group on the chart was the German and African American ancestries. The German consisted of 50.2 millions and the African American was 38 millions. The two smallest groups was Swedish who consisted of 4.3 millions and Scotish-irish who consisted of 3.5 millions. The only thing that surprised me by the chart was the amount of German Ancestries. Personally I thought that the American column would be bigger, because it’s a very central country.