Aware of Statistics Early on

The visit of the Jambi Province BPS to MTSN 3, Wednesday (31/8/2022) was not without a mission. The purpose of BPS is to provide education about the importance of data and the introduction of statistics from an early age. In the midst of a fairly hot sun, the BPS official car drove quite fast towards Sulthan Thaha Airport. Precisely a school which is quite far from the southern ring road of Jambi. A school with a green nuance, to be exact, Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri 3, which is located at Ekajaya Village.

This visit is a response to the friendship that has been carried out by the MTSN3 Principal and his entourage to BPS Jambi Province on t4 August 2022.

In addition to visiting the population corner, the Jambi Provincial BPS team also held a socialization activity with the theme "Aware of Statistics from an Early Age". This theme is deliberately taken so that the awareness of statistics has begun to be grown from these young people. As generation Z, the children of MTSN3 Jambi City are a critical generation and sensitive to the information they receive. This is an opportunity for BPS to start building a younger generation who are statistically aware and concerned with data.

Socialization is done by first introducing what statistics are. How to recognize statistics in everyday life, for example by seeing the highest number of goals in a football match session, taking blood samples in blood type checking activities or tasting the taste of food in mother's cooking. All these statistical activities can be seen and felt in daily activities. Such a simple explanation is an attempt to bring statistics closer, so that children are familiar with data and samples. The sample is one of the statistical activities, applied when conducting a survey. While the census is a big statistic where BPS carries out three times, namely the population census in the year ending in zero, the agricultural census in the year ending in three and the economic census in the year ending in six.

The explanation of the population census is considered interesting for the children of MTSN 3 Jambi City. This can be seen from the question of one of his students named Syafa Olivia who asked about the relationship between the population census and education. The high enthusiasm of the students of MTSN 3 Jambi City in participating in this socialization continues where Devi Reza Rizky Amanda also talks about the best solution to control the population.

The socialization material revolves around the statistical data of Jambi Province. The informant explained that as many as 51.01 percent of the population were male and 48.99 percent were female. Structurally, it is dominated by the millennial generation (26.80 percent) and generation Z (29.18 percent). In addition to discussing the number of residents, this socialization contains education about early marriage. According to marital status, the percentage of children aged 10-17 years who are currently married is 0.16 percent (boys) and 0.94 percent (girls). The occurrence of early marriage under the age of marriage is certainly a particular concern because the Indonesian marriage law provides a minimum age limit of 19 years for children to marry. early. The younger generation must carefully prepare for marriage in order to create a quality generation and population problems do not increase. The visit closed by introducing the various kinds of social media owned by BPS Jambi Province and how to get easy data by visiting the BPS website. Hopefully in the future there will be a generation that is aware of data and understands statistics comprehensively. (Jambi/Intermediate data)