Wikidata:Property proposal/average age
mean age edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place
| Description | mean age in a given place; qualify with P585 |
|---|---|
| Represents | no label (Q29975002) |
| Data type | Number (not available yet) |
| Template parameter | none |
| Domain | countries, municipalities, settlements, ... |
| Allowed values | 0-150 |
| Allowed units | year (Q577) |
| Example | Prague (Q1085) → 42.0 |
| Source | various databases, eg. Czech Statistical Bureau |
| Planned use | import values for all Czech municipalities |
- Motivation
I'd like to import values for average age in Czech municipalites. This is a blank spot in Wikidata; maybe similar properties such as median age or average age - men / average age - women should also be proposed Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
Comment Hmm, I think it would be better to propose a property for demographic information (number of people of a given age) using the new "tabular data" format where the table is stored in Commons. We don't have a lot of tools for that yet (or any properties using it I think so far?) but in principle that would allow determination of average, median, or any other statistical property and this seems like a great test case for it. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:49, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
- Comment Interesting, but what if such detailed information is not available for our country? --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 08:14, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
Support I think it's good to host this kind of data directly on Wikidata because that makes it easier to query it with SPARQL. ChristianKl (talk) 10:37, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
Question Is this the mean or the median? Shouldn't that be clarified in the label? --Yair rand (talk) 23:50, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Yair rand: Okay, I renamed the property into "mean age" to prevent possible misunderstandings. It can have average age as alternative name. ChristianKl (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you, that sounds reasonable. --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 07:36, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
- @Yair rand: Okay, I renamed the property into "mean age" to prevent possible misunderstandings. It can have average age as alternative name. ChristianKl (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
- @Vojtěch Dostál, ArthurPSmith, Yair rand:
Done Created as mean age (P4442). ChristianKl (talk) 09:57, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
