International Statistical Literacy Project

Website on the International CensusAtSchool Project “The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Centre for Statistical Education, based at Nottingham Trent University, started the CensusAtSchool project in 2000 in conjunction with National Statistics. In addition it was funded by the Maths Year 2000 initiative and the RSS itself. The project is on going and, by continuing it, the Centre has three main aims: 1) To provide real data for data-handling activities across the National Curriculum; 2) To increase awareness of what a national census is, and what it is for; 3) To show how Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can be used effectively to enhance learning and teaching resources for good practice in data handling.

Today, several countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada and United Kingdom) are running this project in their countries. All of these countries’ data, activities, and codebooks can be reached through the International CensusAtSchool Project web site maintained by the RSS. A random sample of data from each country can be obtained via this web site.