GCSE Statistics coursework

the larger the population of an area, the more people are unemployed

You need to think about the wording of your hypothesis. At the moment it sounds like you are investigating whether a city with a population of 500,000 people has more unemployed people than a village of 100 people.

I suppose that's true but my teacher checked our hypotheses and many people had this hypothesis. I know I should change it to unemployment rate instead of number of people who are unemployed but then wouldn't I have to work out percentages?

You should certainly look at the number of people unemployed per 1000 people or something like that. Do you find working out percentages difficult?

If I had to then I could work out the percentages but since I have a sample of 50 places this would take up quite a lot of space in my coursework and we have a page limit. So theoretically could I just do my original hypothesis and still get the same marks that I would for doing a hypothesis with unemployment rate?

Dont ...

I only got 4 marks for my coursework in stats tho so who am I to say.

If I had to then I could work out the percentages but since I have a sample of 50 places this would take up quite a lot of space in my coursework and we have a page limit. So theoretically could I just do my original hypothesis and still get the same marks that I would for doing a hypothesis with unemployment rate?

A set of percentages should take up no more than one column in your table of results and, if you reduce the column width, it won't occupy any additional space.

If your hypothesis is stupid, your whole project is ultimately pointless.

So would I have to show the working for the percentages or could I just write them next to the sampled areas in my data sheets as the data sheets don't count towards the pages?

Write them wherever you like.