Teacher's Guide - Pearson

23c h a p t e rResearch skills: Data analysisand interpretationSyllabus: General objectiveThis chapter deals with the application of knowledge, skills and processes learnt toidentify and solve real-life problems.Specific objectives• Gather data to support or refute the conjectures/hypothesis.• Analyse and interpret data.• Generalise results.• Evaluate the product.AnswersActivity 23.3 (Student’s Book page 406)1. Pie chart or bar chart2. Pie chart3. Bar chartActivity 23.4 (Student’s Book page 407)1. a) South Africa and Mauritius followed the world trend: slight increase from1995–2000, then remained constant. Tanzania and Botswana: sharp increase from 1995–2000, then remainedconstant. Outperformed the world trend. Uganda had a continuous increase from 1995 until 2002. Outperformed theworld trend.Zimbabwe and Kenya: industry deteriorated, below world trend.b) South Africa and Mauritius both have well-developed tourism industries thatare running almost at capacity, i.e. there is not much room for further growth.Botswana and Tanzania both have fast-growing tourism industries that are notat full capacity yet, so there’s still a lot of growth possible, and they utilise it.Uganda’s tourism industry is growing rapidly and they use all the means thatare available to develop it further.Chapter 23: Research skills: Data analysis and interpretation141