Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Sorting (SORTING)

Translation
Section	English 222	Arabic 222	Czech 222	German 222	Spanish 222	French 222	Italian 222	Japanese 222	Portuguese 222	Russian 222	Chinese 222
222-1	sorting	فرز	roztřídění do skupin	Sortierung —Schlüsselung	clasificación	tri	selezione	ソート(仕分け)	ordenação	Сортировка	重组
222-2	modality	كيفيات	varianta	Ausprägung	modalidades	modalité	modalità	固有の特性	modalidades	Модальность	形式
222-3	data analysis	تحليل البيانات	analýza dat	Datenanalyse	análisis de datos	analyse des données	analisi dei dati	データ分析	análise de dados	Анализ данных	数据分析

The edited data are rarely used directly; they are subjected to grouping (130-7) and tabulation (130-6*), and this normally leads to a presentation in the form of statistical tables (131-4). These may be the outcome of sorting ¹, either manual or mechanical, resulting in the reorganization of the elements in a set according to predetermined rules, or more simply of a systematic count of the elements presenting a selected characteristic. The choice of elements or of characteristics may be based on the values of one or several quantitative attributes, or on the modalities ² of one or several qualitative attributes. Few studies can do without computation, simple or complex, isolated or repetitive, and the computer (225-2) now allows calculation that would have been too lengthy by hand. These capabilities have led to the development of techniques of data analysis ³. Deterministic and stochastic models (cf. 730) often require considerable computations, and so do simulations (730-6).