Collecting and Representing Data

What type of data is describing the number of students in each year group?

• Categorical

• Discrete

What type of data is describing the favourite colour of each student?

• Categorical

• Discrete

What type of data is describing the number of books students read over the school holidays?

• Categorical

• Discrete

What type of data is describing the types of fruit students like best?

• Categorical

• Discrete

True or false: The number of goals scored by each player in a soccer game is discrete data.

• True

• False

True or False: The number of siblings each student has is categorical data

• True

• False

True or False: The types of movies students like to watch is discreet data.

• True

• False

Which of these is incorrect? Data, as a secondary source, can come from:

• The media

• A website

• My own survey

• The national Census

The National Census is an example of:

• A Sample Survey

• A Large-scale survey

• A Tally

• A Government Plan

A Sample Survey is one that:

• Is very very small

• A survey that asks people to sample things and give their opinions

• is a small sample from a larger group that accurately represents the larger population

• asks the entire population questions, like the National Census