Interpreting the cumulative frequency distribution of Socio-Economic data

Abstract

The accumulated frequencies of the quantitative variables of socio-economic statistical data, the ogive, are treated , if at all, as a curiosity and only as an instruction of how to rearranging the frequencies of the distribution. The meaning of the result, an ogive, is not explained nor is its interpretation attempted. It is the purpose of this paper to make sense of cumulative frequency distributions, revealing features of the concrete local-historical situations of society, described by the data, that otherwise would remain unnoticed.