New Data Added!New data from the various international CensusAtSchool partner projects has been added to the Random Data Selector (RDS). This includes school children's submitted phase data; New Canada Data for 2009 and 2010: the data split into Secondary and Primary levels is available in both the English and French language versions. More Australian Data: a large amount of data from various phase years has now been added to the RDS. The first Irish Data: the first ever as part of the CensusAtSchool project, although this is the first phase from Ireland it is being classed as Phase 9 as it based on the UK questionnaire from 2008-2009.
For now you may only take 200 samples from the RDS but we hope to add all this exciting new data to the DataTool at some point in the future. |  |
You can access the RDS here.
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The Fourth International CensusAtSchool Workshop |
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The Fourth International CensusAtSchool Workshop will take place on Thursday 21 October at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX. This one day event will be about Enriching the Understanding of Statistics AtSchool... Workshops will be run by: the RSSCSE team; NZ (from Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch); USA (Martha Aliaga); Canada (Mary Townsend); and elsewhere (TBA). Also, selected twinned schools will present a BBC News School Report on the 2011 CensusAtSchool project. This event forms the second day of a series of activities to mark the beginning of the Royal Statistical Society’s 10-year statistical literacy campaign, getstats. A provisional programme for the week of events can be found here. You can register for the fourth International CensusAtSchool workshop (and other getstats events if you wish) using the link below. For more information about the RSS getstats week view the RSSCSE home page at www.rsscse.org.uk Register here
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About CensusAtSchool International |
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On these pages you will find information about the International CensusAtSchool Project. CensusAtSchool aims to- Encourage children to get involved with data handling and learn statistical skills;
- Provide real data for data handling activities;
- Increase awareness of what national censuses are and what they are for;
- Show how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used effectively to enhance teaching and learning especially in the area of data handling.
It is presently running in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Data can also be obtained for Queensland (2001 & 2003) and South Australia (2003 & 2004).
International DatabaseAccess is provided to the International CensusAtSchool Database via the Random Data Selector. This allows children to compare their results with children from across the world. Use the menu on the left to access this unique resource.
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RSSCSE CensusAtSchool joins the ONS for the Big Bang Fair |
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Next year is Census year for England and Wales and as part of the promotion for the 2011 Census the Office for National Statistics have joined with the RSSCSE CensusAtSchool Project to promote the Census to School Children across the country using Origami, the theme of the 2011 Census. 
The CensusAtSchool Team traveled to Manchester to meet up with the ONS at this year’s Big Band Science and Engineering fair at the Manchester Convention Centre. The team spent three days promoting the CensusAtSchool Resources and the 2011 Census to teachers and students; the stand included a giant purple origami bus, an origami shirt folding competition with a chance to win a free Census 2011 mug and a CensusAtSchool interactive stats quiz. Overall we helped 2000 students fold origami and gave away an amazing 1200 mugs. Thank you to everyone who visited our stand and all the teachers who signed up for our free resources. If you would like to know more about the Big Bang you can view the fair’s web site here: http://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/
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