You can now save or copy+paste data-viewer graphics into documents
We have changed the format of the graphics files produced by data-viewer to png.
While they do not look as crisp as the previous swf graphics the big advantage is that they can now be saved or copied and pasted into another document.
PS Please let us know how you’re using CensusAtSchool’s data-viewer with your classes!
Welcome back – we hope you had a lovely break!
Planning is now underway for CensusAtSchool 2013. We would love to know your ideas for questions we should include in next year’s questionnaire. You may wish to ask your students for their suggestions too.
Please email all your suggestions to censusatschoolnz@gmail.com by the end of this week.
As a reminder, here’s the current questions:
http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2011/questions/
If you also would like any question to be removed from that set, please let us know too.
Thank you!
Rachel Cunliffe
The 2011 database is now in the data-viewer (thoroughly cleaned)
It’s also the data-viewer‘s default database. A lot of effort has gone into cleaning the 2011 data – combatting a trend whereby an annoying but growing minority of students is entering silly values. In preparation for the 2013 survey, we will have a dialogue with teachers later in the year about how this trend might be reversed. The 2011 database is currently the cleanest of the databases.
The following files from the 2011 Statistics Teachers’ Day organised by the Auckland mathematical Association and The University of Auckland’s Department of Statistics have now been put up on Census At School’s website:
http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2011/statistics-teachers-day-years-12-and-13/
Use of the iNZight program for analysing statistical data analysis has just been made a whole lot easier. The software is now packaged in a form where it can be downloaded (or copied) and then used on Windows machines without the user needing to have administrative privileges because it needs no formal installation – see the downloads page at:
Random Sampler:
http://censusatschool.org.nz/2011/sampler/
Table Maker:
https://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2011/table-maker/
Questionnaire Preview:
http://censusatschool.org.nz/2011/questions/
Variables List:
http://censusatschool.org.nz/2011/variables/
If you have any questions, please let us know.
CensusAtSchool New Zealand has just been run in May/June 2011. This is the fifth time CensusAtSchool has been held in New Zealand, and it is also run in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, UK and USA.
Over 25,000 Year 5-13 students from around the country have taken part to date by completing 31 questions. This is the second biggest participation the project has had to date. More than 1,600 teachers have registered their classes.
There has been significant media coverage of this year’s census – including a story on 3 News, front page story on the NZ Herald which went around the world, radio interviews on Newstalk ZB, Radio Live and Radio New Zealand National.
CensusAtSchool data will be made available to teachers and students via its website shortly and has been referenced in many New Zealand textbooks.
Almost 24,000 students have taken part
Thanks so much to all those who have taken part during the official data collection period! We really appreciate you getting on board.
If you haven’t taken part so far but would like to, good news:
We are keeping the survey open until the end of the school year.
We’ll be sending out an update soon about everyone’s data becoming available, but in the meantime we wanted to tell you about a new blog the Department of Statistics has launched:
I think you’ll find lots of food for thought there about current statistics in the media and links to good resources. Subscribe to the site or bookmark it.
CensusAtSchool’s official data collection period ends June 10
A quick reminder that there’s two more school days left of the official data collection period for CensusAtSchool – we’ve had over 21,300 responses to date!
After June 10, the survey will remain open for use during the rest of the year with your class, but we won’t be pushing the data collection side of things as much and will be focussing on getting the data ready for use.
Many thanks for your participation to date!
A quick reminder that CensusAtSchool’s official data collection period ends June 10.
Please help us get as many students taking part this year before the end of next week.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
