“Aggregate statistics offer a concrete and strong argument for the existence of social phenomena.” Elaborate on the meaning of aggregate statistics and explain the statement using an example.

For the proper planning and implementation of the state policies like that for economic development and for general public welfare, demographic data are important. The introduction of the social statistics provided a strong explanation for the new discipline of sociology. “Aggregate statistics offer a concrete and strong argument for the existence of social phenomena.” In the following statement, aggregate statistics can also be called numerical characteristics means, millions of people around the nation collectively provide a strong argument for the existence of the social phenomena. For example –statistics at the country level or state level like death rate – the number of deaths per 1,000 population, these death rates are made by aggregating or adding up individual deaths. At the social level, death rate itself is a social phenomenon.