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Australian Bureau of Statistics

VITTA and the Australian Bureau of Statistics are working together to support statistical literacy through ICT and the Census at Schools  project.

The ABS is working on educational resources to bring data to life in the classroom providing resources for teachers and students. VITTA promotes the use of visualising thinking tools for teaching and learning.

CensusAtSchools Project 2008

The 2008 CensusAtSchool Questionnaire closes soon. Students can get the most out of  the data by ensuring that all students in a school (from Years 5 to 12) submit a questionnaire and encouraging other schools in your area to have students submit a questionnaire. This is particularly important in country areas where there are fewer schools, resulting in a limited number of responses. Data collection closes on July 4. DON'T MISS OUT!

The 2008 database will be open for data analysis in July 2008, and will be supported by a range of classroom activities for use in ICT, Mathematics and SOSE/HSIE. However the project's diverse use extends as far as English and Health. More than 87,000 students and teachers have accessed the 2006 database from the CensusAtSchool website via the Random Sampler facility and countless others have downloaded the prepared samples. The good news this time is that data from the Random Sampler will be delivered as an Excel spreadsheet ready for analysis.

CensusAtSchool is designed for students between Years 5-10, but extends to senior levels too, allowing such analyses as binomial distributions and linear regression. And of course CensusAtSchool is available FREE online.