The Statistics Report

What Is the Statistics Report?

Using the Statistics Report

Using Statistics to Find People

Excluding Date Modifiers in Statistics Calculations

Sharing Statistics (Printing, Emailing, etc.)

What Is the Statistics Report?

The Statistics report calculates, analyzes, and summarizes data from your family file. It presents a complete breakdown of a variety of statistical data and also lets you focus on and search for records that match specific criteria. Just a sampling of the possibilities includes...

To see statistics for your family file...

  1. Click Reports in the navbar.
  2. Click Statistics in the list of reports.

Using the Statistics Report

At the top of the Statistics report, you'll see four menu buttons (just under the title bar of Reunion's window). The following table describes the parameters available in each menu...

menus Show
1st

menu
Show
2nd
menu
For Who Are
choices

Age
Year
Month
Date
Number

The items in this menu depend on selection in the 1st menu.
examples:
at death
of death
of siblings
of full siblings
of half siblings
of children
etc.

all
marked
unmarked
living
not living
living or not living
description type of statistic event or
attribute
whether records
are marked
whether people
are living

Examples

Example 1: To see when people were first married, and limit the results to living people only, configure the menus to look like this...

Example 2: To see the month in which most people have died...

Example 3: To see what day of the year when most births occurred, configure the menus like this and then click the top of the All column, to sort by that column...

Example 3: To see the ages in which marked people have had their first child...

Example 4: To see the years during which unmarked deceased people were born...

Example 5: To see the number of people who are living and have half siblings...

Using Statistics to Find People

If you double-click any line in the Statistics report, Reunion will search for people matching the selected statistic. If any results are found, they will appear in the Results sidebar.

You can also select a line in the Statistics report and click the Find button (the little magnifying glass at the bottom of the list).

For example, if your current Statistics report is showing number of children and you double-click the line showing "10" the results Sidebar will appear with a list of everybody who has 10 children.

Similarly, if your current Statistics report is showing the month of birth and you double click the "April" line in the report, the Results sidebar will appear with a list of everybody born in April.

Using Statistics to Find Problems

You can use the Statistics report to quickly find errors in your data. For example, if your Statistics report is showing the ages of people when their first child was born and you see really low numbers, such as "3" or "4," you'll know that, somehow, a birth date has been entered incorrectly. Proceed as follows...

  1. Double-click the suspect line in the Statistics report. In this example, the line "3" in the Breakdown section — see illustration below.
  2. A list of results appears the sidebar — these are all the people whose entries suggest they had their first child at age 3.
  3. Double-click somebody in the Results sidebar to show his record in the family view.
  4. Investigate the date entries for the person and make a correction.

Interpreting Statistics

It's important to understand that "zero" can be a valid result in a statistical calculation. For example, let's say search A is for the number of people with full siblings and search B is for the number of people with half siblings. At first glance, you might think the results are in error because both breakdowns indicate the same TOTAL. However, when you realize that both breakdowns are comprised of people with "0" full siblings (search A) and "0" half siblings (in search B), then it makes sense that the totals would be equal.

Excluding Date Modifiers in Statistics Calculations

If you prefer, the Statistics report can ignore dates with modifiers (such as BEF, AFT, ABT, CIR, ?). Date modifiers can skew the statistics.

To ignore date modifiers in the Statistics report...

The state of this button also affects date feasibility checking and reports.