Quantitative & Qualitative skills (AQA A Level Geography)

Exam Questions

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Figure 6 shows data obtained from students from an estate agent indicating how average house prices in the local town had changed over the previous 30-year period.

Figure 6

House price £

1986

1991

1996

2001

2006

2011

2016

1 bedroomed flat or house

27

45

41

86

105

103

114

2 bedroomed house

32

51

49

95

146

141

158

3 or 4 bedroomed house

43

68

67

157

238

227

247

2 or 3 bedroomed bungalow

39

61

59

140

205

195

209

*All figures in thousands

Assess the usefulness of house price data such as that shown in Figure 6 in helping to understand the nature of a local place, comparing it with other quantitative sources that you used in studying place.

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Figure 3a shows a poem and sketch, written and drawn in 1906, about Ancoats, an inner-city area of Manchester.

Figure 3b is an aerial photograph of Ancoats taken in 2014.

Figure 3a – a poem and sketch, written and drawn in 1906, about Ancoats, an inner-city area of Manchester

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Note: This was written by Roger Oldham in 1906 for a book entitled ‘A–Z of Manchester’

Figure 3b – aerial photograph of Ancoats taken in 2014

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Evaluate the usefulness of Figure 3a and Figure 3b in showing change in Ancoats.

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With reference to your local place, assess the extent to which qualitative sources (for example songs, artwork) present contrasting images to quantitative sources (for example census data, maps).

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Outline how geospatial data can be used to present place characteristics.

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Figure 3a shows a word cloud produced as a result of a recent health survey asking: ‘What factors do you feel most influence your health and wellbeing?’

Figure 3b shows the ward’s population structure in 2011.

Figure 3c shows the reasons for residents not being in employment in the ward in 2011.

Figure 3a

A word cloud produced as a result of a recent health survey asking ‘What factors do you feel most influence your health and wellbeing?’

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Note: a word cloud displays the responses in a font size and colour relating to the frequency of these responses.

Figure 3bPopulation structure, Weston-super-Mare Central ward, 2011

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Figure 3c – Reasons for residents not being in employment in 2011

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Analyse the data shown in Figures 3a, 3b and 3c.

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Figure 3a shows qualitative data measuring personal well-being across selected inner London boroughs.

Figure 3b shows average income of employed residents in each selected borough.

Figure 3a

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Figure 3b

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Analyse the data shown in Figure 3a and Figure 3b.

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