WorksheetsCOLLECTING DATA
Total questions: 154
Worksheet time: 3hrs 6mins
Abigail is conducting a research project for her class. Which of these statements describes primary data?
Information stored on the internet.
Information that is collected directly from the source.
Information that already exists.
Aiden works at a supermarket that collects data by analysing sales records.
What type of data is this?
Primary data
Secondary data
Benjamin is conducting a survey for his research project and uses a questionnaire to gather information. The questionnaire is used to collect which type of data?
Primary data
Secondary data
Which of these statements are not correct for a good questionnaire that Noah is preparing for his school project?
(Select all that apply.)
Use short questions in simple language.
Always include name, address and date of birth.
Use questions that have a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer.
Ask leading questions such as ‘do you agree...’.
How much homework do Oliver, Aiden, and Benjamin get each week?
none
1-2 hours
3-4 hours
more than 4 hours
too much
In a survey, Luna was asked the following question. How many times did you go to the hairdresser last year?
(a)
This question is in a lifestyle questionnaire.
How often do you visit the cinema?
There are only two options.
The answers are too vague.
There is no time period given in the question.
They may not like the cinema.
Avery is conducting a survey for her class project. She asks her classmates, 'Do you think that attending live concerts is more enjoyable than going to the movies?'
The question is leading.
The question is too long.
The question cannot be answered.
During the pizza party on Saturday, which pizza was the most popular among Zoe, Kai, and Daniel?
Cheese feast
Vegetarian
Meat lovers
Anchovy
Marks in a test were recorded and tallied. The tally for 5 was recorded as: ||||| | This means the frequency of 5 is (a)
The table shows the marks awarded to students like Harper, Mason, and Abigail in a class test.
How many students sat the test?
(a)
Kai, Aria, Henry, and two other students get a score of 8 in a test.
So the frequency of the score of 8 is (a)
What is the lowest score in the data set of scores from Isla, Hannah, and Benjamin?
(a)
In a recent math test, William, Anika, and Aria scored various marks. If no one scores a mark of 7, you should ......
leave the score of 7 out of the frequency table
write 0 in the frequency column for the score of 7
put a cross in the frequency column for the score of 7
During a class activity, Abigail counted the number of times her classmates raised their hands using tally marks. What frequency do these tally marks represent?
(a)
This table shows the results of a survey on the number of children per family in a small town.
Eight families had 4 children.
The maximum number of children in any family is 4.
Three families had 12 children.
‘7’ in the frequency column means a family had 7 children.
What is the total number of children in all the families in the small town where Evelyn, Luna, and Ava live?
(a)
In a class of students, David, Aria, and Emma have shared their sports preferences. Select all correct statements below.
There are 28 different sports.
The number of students in the class is 28.
The most popular sport is tennis.
Five students prefer cricket.
David and his classmates were surveyed regarding which brand of drink they would buy. If everyone’s answer was recorded,
how many people said they would not buy any of the brands?
(a)
If half the students scored 28,
what is the missing frequency ?
11
14
16
23
Mason is conducting a research project for his class. He decides to gather information about local wildlife. Which of these statements describes primary data?
Information stored on the internet.
Information that is collected directly from the source.
Information that already exists.
Would you carry out a survey or an experiment to answer the following questions: What is the favorite colour of students like Rohan, Aria, and Liam in your class?
Survey
Experiment
Would Liam collect primary data or secondary data to help answer the following question: Who is the highest earning athlete in the world right now?
Primary data
Secondary data
Would you collect primary data or secondary data to help answer the following questions: What is the favorite sport of students like Priya, Daniel, and Charlotte in your class?
Secondary data
Primary data
Aiden wants to know on what day people prefer to do their shopping, he visits the market every single day of the week an asks people as they go in, will his test give fair results? Give a reason for your answer
No, the people will refuse to answer Aiden because he is rude
Yes, he is going on every day of the week, so his results should be fair
No, he needs to go every day for a whole month
Yes, he is asking them and they should answer fairly
Oliver is conducting research for his school project and needs to gather information. He comes across various reports and studies that have already been published. Secondary data is ...
data that you collect it yourself
data that you found in secondary school
data that someone else has already collected
data that has a lot of things of secondary things
In a school project, Samuel is tasked with gathering information about the students in his class. What is a population in this context?
A tool used to collect statistical data
Statistics collected from an entire population
All the people or objects on which data is collected
A group chosen from a population
In a school project, Kai is tasked with understanding the demographics of his classmates. He decides to conduct a census to gather information about their ages, grades, and interests. What is a census?
A tool used to collect statistical data
Statistics collected from an entire population
The factual information collected from a survey or other source
A group chosen from a population
What is a survey?
process of collecting statistical data from a small group of a population
Statistics collected from an entire population
An element or feature that can vary
A person chosen from a population
In a recent class project, Elijah and Ava collected information from their classmates about their favorite books. What is the data they gathered?
The practise of collecting and analysing data
The factual information collected from a survey or other source
An element or feature that can vary
A group chosen from a population
In a class project, Benjamin is tasked with understanding the opinions of his classmates about a new school policy. He decides to survey a few students instead of the entire class. What is this group of students called?
A tool used to collect statistical data
Statistics collected from an entire population
The factual information collected from a survey or other source
A subgroup chosen from a population
During a class project, Ethan collected the facts or numbers gathered by a survey he conducted among his classmates.
data
sample
population
survey
Mia is conducting a survey to understand the average time students spend on homework each week. The characteristic used to describe her sample is known as what?
parameter
statistic
population
census
Avery is conducting a study to gather information about the eating habits of all students in her school. She wants to collect data from every member of the student population.
parameter
survey
census
sample
Grace wants to collect information about her classmates' favorite subjects by asking a question or set of questions.
data
census
random sample
survey
Avery is conducting a study on student preferences for lunch options at her school. She wants to ensure that every student has the same chance of being selected to participate in her survey. What type of sample is she using?
random sample
population
statistic
survey
In a school, the characteristic used to describe the entire student population, including students like Noah, Hannah, and Luna, is referred to as what?
statistic
parameter
census
data
Avery is conducting a study on the reading habits of high school students. She needs to identify the entire set of items (who or what) from which data can be selected for her research.
survey
parameter
population
sample
In a class project, William collected data from a group of students to analyze their study habits. This data represents part of the entire student population at the school.
sample
census
statistic
parameter
Census or Sample?
Aria surveys each of the teachers in her school. She concludes that 64% of the teachers in her school enjoy reading as a hobby.
Census
Sample
Census or Sample?
Aria surveys each of the students in her seventh grade class. She concludes that 50% of all seventh graders have at least one sibling.
Census
Sample
Parameter or Statistic?
According to Ms. Carey's survey of the students in her class, 50% of her students, including David and Charlotte, have at least one dog.
Parameter
Statistic
Parameter or Statistic?
A local journal conducted a survey. Of the 1800 subscribers, 1354 responded. Based on the survey, the journal concludes that 75% of subscribers will renew their subscriptions next year.
Parameter
Statistic
During a class discussion, Samuel mentioned that another word form of 'data' is
(a)
Kai is conducting research for his school project and comes across various sources of information. He finds some data that has already been collected by other researchers. What is this type of data?
Information that you collect by yourself.
Data from the internet and magazine
Information from already collected data.
Is primary or secondary data needed for this action?
How many students like maths, social, science and English in Mason's class?
Primary data
Secondary data
Aria is researching for her school project and wonders where Internet search comes under
(a)
In a school, there is a cricket club for boys.
Grace wants to know how many people in her school like to play cricket. she asks only the boys. Is this a fair test?
Yes. It is fair.
No. It is unfair.
Can David ask someone's age in a questionnaire?
Yes
No
Isla and Harper are discussing their study schedules. What are overlapping options for their study times?
yes and yes
1-3 and 3-6
no and no
6-9 and 9-15
Frequency tables contain
(a)
Can we use abbreviations in a questionnaire?
No.
Yes
Surveys are taken for (in a market)
To know what people want.
To know what people need.
To know what people like.
Google search is an?
Primary data
Secondary data
Planning and collecting data is all about?
Creating surveys.
Creating surveys and questionnaires.
primary and secondary data.
Max makes a questionnaire of 25 questions.
Do you think many people will attend this questionnaire?
Yes.
No.
Maybe.
How often do you go to the swimming pool?
Is this sentence correct in a survey?
No
Yes
Maybe
This is a survey of favourite chocolate in a class of 48 students.
Which type is liked more and how many people like it?
Type the name of chocolate and then the number of people like this: (example only) Mango,31.
(a)
Buying online is called?
Internet shopping or e-commerce
mall shopping
How do you know that the site is secured? (select multiple)
There is a small locked padlock symbol.
The URL of a secure site starts with https://.
There is a cross symbol.
What is a cookie?
a small file that is stored on your computer when you visit a website.
a cookie that you can eat
A type of cookies that record what you do on a web.
functionality cookies
subway cookies
A type of cookies that collect information about how you use website.
performance cookies
baked cookies
A type of cookies that record what you look at online.
milk and cookies
advertising cookies
What tracking cookies do?
sell valuable information
sell milk and subway cookies
Protecting data from unauthorised access for use or destruction is called data security.
True
False
After you have finished using someone's personal data, what should you do with it?
Pass it on to someone else.
Give it back to the owner.
Securely delete it.
Throw it out.
Cookies personalize a person's web search
True
False
..................are files that collect detailed data about your browsing.
cookies
brownies
data files
google chrome
True or False: You can delete cookies that have been stored for your browser?
True
False
Why are some people concerned about tracking cookies?
Because too many of them could result in a cookie monster attack.
Because it can used to influence their opinions and affect the way they vote in elections
Because they contain gluten
True or False: Web/Browser cookies help websites to remember their users and provide a better experience.
True
False
in a URL how do you know its a secure site
The URL has www. in it
The URL has Https in it
The URL has http in it
The URL has a .com in it
When shopping online the sites collect data on you?
True
False
What does a cookie do?
Saves information about how you use a web site
Tastes good
Downloads information about you
Makes the website work slower
Which one of these isn't a type of cookie
Advertising cookies
Performance Cookies
Functionality cookies
Suitable cookies
Adverts use cookies to show relatable ads
True
False
Cookies make it harder to use websites again.
True
False
What symbol shows you a website is safe and secure?
a cookie
a safe
a padlock
a key
What does * means when you fill a form?
required data
deleted data
optional data
personal data
Cookies can be used to personalize a website.
True
False
Some owners of websites sell your personal data?
True
False
A source created about an event or time-period by someone who was there
Primary
Secondary
An article about the Civil War written during the Civil War
Primary
Secondary
A web page created by a student about the Civil War.
primary
secondary
How often a slice of buttered bread lands 'butter down' when it is dropped 50 times?
There are 1200 houses in a town. A survey is to be conducted.
Should every house be asked, or should a sample be taken?
Take a sample
Ask every house
Stefan wants to find out if baseball should be introduced as a new sport in his school.
Which method could he use to collect the data?
Select all appropriate methods.
Interview a sample of students
Complete an experiment
Observe students at break time
Create a questionnaire for students to complete
How many hours did James spend revising on Monday?
2
1
4
6
How many hours did James spend revising on Wednesday?
1.5
3
2
4
What is the mode of the data?
7, 9, 8, 7, 2, 6, 7, 11, 9, 7, 5, 7, 3
2
5
7
11
▶Conducting a survey of every person who passes you in the street
Primary research
Secondary research
▶Looking up information about people buying different types of cereals in a Nestle survey online
Primary research
Secondary research
▶Asking your classmates 20 questions about cereals
Primary research
Secondary research
▶Copying out information from the Manchester Evening News
Primary research
Secondary research
Using the government statistics to find out about the favorite cereals among children
Primary research
Secondary research
How many Seniors ate burritos or pizza?
10
5
15
10
What type of graph is this?
bar graph
pictogram
tally chart
The chart shows three types of engineers and their preference for Math or Science. How many engineers chose Math?
254
262
171
516
how often a slice of buttered bread lands 'butter down' when it is dropped 50 times
experiment
observation
survey
the number of books owned by people living in your street or village
experiment
observation
survey
the number of pairs of glasses owned by students in your class
experiment
observation
survey
the number of people that go into your local dentist's surgery each hour
experiment
observation
survey
how often a red card is drawn from a pack of playing cards in 50 draws
experiment
observation
survey
how often students in your class have been to the cinema in the last month
experiment
observation
survey
how often a normal dice lands on a 6 when it is rolled 50 times
experiments
observations
survey
the number of students that ate fruit everyday last week
experiment
observation
survey
the number of pets of every student in grade 7 have
experiment
observation
survey
the number of times people in your family travelled by plane in the last month
experiment
observation
survey
how often two dice land on both 3 when it is rolled 60 times
experiment
observing
survey
the number of pets your classmates have
experiment
survey
observation
the shoes size of all of grade 7 students
experiment
observation
survey
knowing favorite lessons of all of grade 7 students
survey
observation
experiments
A car salesman records information about the cars he is selling.
The colour of each car is _____ data
Categorical
Continuous
Discrete
A shop owner records information about his customers.
The method of transport is _____ data
Categorical
Numerical
There are 40 sheep on a farm.
The weight of the sheep is _____ data
Qualitative
Discrete
Continuous
A teacher asks everyone in his Year 7 group for their shoe size.
This is a _____ of the Year 7 group.
Census
Sample
Biased sample
Population
'A person's blood pressure when watching a horror movie.'
The length of a football pitch is _____ data
Discrete
Continuous
The following TV shows: 'The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Dexter'.
A shop owner records information about his customers.
The distance they traveled to get to the shop is _____ data
Qualitative
Quantitative
The number of seats in a car is _____ data
Discrete
Continuous
Weight - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Favorite animal - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Nationality - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Time on the Internet per week - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Hair color - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Number of pages in a book - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
How much people like dogs - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Head size - Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Favorite Ice Cream- Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
Zip Code- Is it classified as numerical or categorical?
Categorical
Numerical
