Census at school

Yesterday we completed the Census at School.

This is an online survey that all Year 3-13 school children may complete.

It's a non-profit educationally motivated project hosted by the Stats Department at Auckland Uni and with the help of the Ministry of Education and Stats NZ.

In other words, it's a legit survey for kids to learn about stats, not a commercially-driven data-gathering exercise.

The questions were enjoyable and mostly easy for Mulan and Miya to answer.  The games section was a great idea for a bit of fun competitiveness.

A small challenge for us was that the question-designers mustn't have considered homeschoolers -- a few questions only made sense if the kids physically go to school and then have an "after school".  Those don't apply when schooling is a lifestyle, not an event.

After completing the questions, the girls spent some time on the website going through the questions from previous years and examining the data.  They've now got the Live Dashboard open to look at every once in a while.