International Statistical Literacy Project

Statistics Finland's website offers a comprehensive learning program, which has been developed for individual use and classroom use. The main customer groups are teachers, public sector and private enterprises.

The eCourse in Statistic's main page (in English) or The eCourse in Statistic's main page (in Finnish) has as its main purpose the usage skills of statistics via Statistics Finland’s Internet site. It is offered free of charge and has a total of five study modules on different statistical topics via the Internet. The material is, however, much more general and useful to anyone using the Internet to look at statistics including secondary students studying Mathematics and the Social Sciences and adult learners. eCourse in Statistics contains versatile information on statistics; it makes the basic concepts of statistics familiar and explains the backgrounds of statistical research as well as how statistical data can be used. On eCourse in Statistics one can learn about the basics of statistical thinking and how to read and use statistics. Other subjects that can be studied include demographics, national accounts and indices. eCourse in Statistics also offers instructions and hints for searching for statistical information. The study materials requires no prior statistical knowledge. The material intended for self-study includes exercises and examples of actual statistical data. For more information contact: Ms Reija Helenius at reija.helenius@stat.fi or at +358 9 1734 3677.

A paper titled "Co-operation with Educational Institutions as a Strategic Challenge for Statistical Offices" (as a pdf file) or as a doc file by Reija Helenius written for the ISI Biennial Session in 2005 is worth reading.