What is the difference between relative measure and absolute

What is the difference between relative measure and absolute measure when comparing population statistics?

Solution

Absolute measures are numbers with units i.e.total number of times a particular value for a variable actually occurs.For example there are 515 farms in state B, there are 51500 farms in India.

Relative measures describes the absolute frequency of a particular value for a variable in relation to the total number of values for that variable. For example e.g. 1% of farms in India are in state B.