This page was coordinated until February 2008 by Paola Giacché. It is now a Wiki web page, so you may enter information in it. However, please, consult with the Director of the ISLP or with Paola first to make sure that the item you want to enter belongs in this page.

The projects, materials and other efforts of international and national statistical offices and statistical sosieties are listed in alphabetical order by country.

We have divided this webpage into three pages for ease of printing. The three pages are:

I-N on this page. The countries include International Statistical Institute, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Mauritius, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Nicaragua.

A-H which includes Canada, France, Germany and Hong Kong SAR.

O-Z which includes OECD, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Note: For descriptions of formal training programs and learning materials developed by national and international statistical offices go to Training.

The only statistical literacy project of the ISI presently is the International Statistical Literacy Project, which you are currently accessing. The ISLP replaced the World Numeracy Project in 2001.

Anonymised micro-data files from major household surveys (Household Budget Survey, Quarterly National Household Survey, and Census of Population) are made available for free via the Irish Social Science Data Archive based in University College Dublin.

in English / in Italian

“CIRDIS is an Italian Interuniversity Research Centre for Statistical Education hosted by the Universities of Padova, Palermo, Perugia and “Roma la Sapienza”. The Centre has been constituted on 1991 with the general objective of promoting the development of research on statistical education in Italy. For this purpose the Centre: carries out research on statistical education at school and university, cooperates with the official institutions to the initiatives to favour teachers training in statistics and to the initiatives related at the definition of curricula and methodologies of instruction, favours the exchange of teaching materials and information on both national and international basis, organizes meetings, seminaries, conferences on statistical education topics, gives hospitality to teachers and researchers on statistical education that wish to come to the Centre for research purposes, and is a center of documentation of statistical teaching materials.” (Copied from CIRDIS homepage). Many of its activities (click on Activities on the top of its webpage) are concerned with statistical literacy.

by Giovanni A. Barbieri and Paola Giacché of Istat (Statistics Italy), Italy. The Worth of Data... is a paper in English presented at ICOTS-7, 2006 by Giovanni A. Barbieri, Istat Director, reports some reflections and some comments about the realization of the Hypertext “The Worth of Data”.

in English

Each year since 1973, Japan has observed Statistics Day on 18 October. In 2002 events related to statistics day included a statistics fair (which included the winners from the 50th anniversary of the National Statistical Graph Competition) and a free public symposium for academics and practitioners.

This CD is called “tsukattemiyou toukeideita” (Let’s Use the Census Data). It was distributed free to all elementary and junior high schools in Japan.

This competition began in 1952.

“The Museum of Statistics was opened in 1991, marking the 120th anniversary of the Statistics Bureau and the National Statistics Center.” (quoted from brochure about Museum of Statistics). Its intent is to enhance the awareness of the importance of and familiarity with official statistics in a casual setting.

The museum is free and is divided into six sections: Panel Corner (that gives a brief explanation of statistical censuses and surveys, including their development and use), Video Corner (that responds visually to statistical questions of visitors), Prefectural Publications Corner (has statistical publications compiled by each of the prefectures), Foreign Census Corner, Historic Statistical Documents Corner, and Tabulating Machines Corner (that shows these machines in chronological order so that people can easily see the changes that have occurred). It also explains how current official statistics are produced and disseminated.

Located within the Statistics Bureau Statistics Center at 19-1 Wakamatsucho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8668. Tel: +81-3-5273-1187 or +81-3-5273-1131 .

Central Statistical Office

The Central Statistics Office is currently implementing an action plan which was prepared by a committee to address the issue of public understanding of statistics. The committee members were from varied backgrounds such as academia, trade unions, and the private sector. For more information contact Mr Chettun Kumar Arianaick at arianaick@mail.gov.mu.

Statistics Netherlands

StatLine ( in English and in Dutch) is the central database of Statistics Netherlands. It is extremely user friendly. The Dutch version of StatLine contains the complete database of statistical information available from Statistics Netherlands. At the moment, the English version contains only a few matrices; it is to be expanded in the near future. Both versions are easy to use and allow the user to make queries, histograms, tables, and other graphics as well as see summary statistics.

“ Community Statistics is an electronic newsletter used to inform and educate community organisations and librarians about statistics and how to access them.” (quoted from website). This newsletter is sent to over 1000 organizations. The latest issue is also available from Newsletters. Scroll down to Community Statistics.

Forbes, Sharleen. Raising Statistical Awareness. In Teaching Statistics, Autumn 1996, Volume 18, Number 3, Pages 66 to 69.

This article describes the organization and results of the 1990 New Zealand Children’s Census.

“ CensusAtSchool NZ joins an international educational project designed to enhance statistical literacy. It began in the UK, but was based on a trial project by Dr Sharlene Forbes of Statistics New Zealand, which took place in 1990. CensusAtSchool NZ involves an online children’s survey for school Years 5 through to 10. Schools take part voluntarily, with students completing the survey during lesson time, then submitting their data to contribute to an international database. We have included some of the internationally common questions, to provide comparisons between countries, while tailoring the remainder of the questionnaire to reflect the interests of New Zealand children. Results and sample data will be made available to teachers once the ‘census’ is complete, while classroom resources will be developed over time.” (Quoted from website)

El INEC produce un “Boletín Informativo” excelente cada mes. Tiene artículos que contienen mitología para colegir los datos y también unos datos. También tiene artículos de los jóvenes de la nación y más. Suscribir, por favor envía un email a Maritza Perez Mejía (mperezm@inec.gob.ni). También se puede encontrarlo en la red.

Translation: The INEC produces an excellent “Information Bulletin” every month. It has articles concerning methodology for the collection of data and also some data. It also has articles about the youth of the country and more. To subscribe, please send an email to Martiza Perez Mejía (mperezm@inec.gob.ni). Also, you can find it on the Internet.

Note: This page was co-coordinated by Carol Joyce Blumberg from May 2003 to July 2004.