Course assignments

• Education faculties
• Geography
• Economics
• History
• Social sciences
• Statistics

Education faculties

• Joint Health and Mathematics Education Assignment
  Using health-related data on E-STAT, pre-service teachers develop a presentation as a joint assignment for health education and mathematics education courses. This assignment helps develop critical thinking skills and improved understanding of important health issues concerning youth aged 11-15 years. (Nipissing University)

• Environmental Science Case Study
  Teacher candidates develop a case study which introduces an environmental issue and applies relevant data from the Statistics Canada web site or Human Activity and the Environment for an intermediate / senior environmental science class. (OISE/University of Toronto)

• Integrating Databases in the Education Curriculum
  Teacher candidates use electronic resources such as E-STAT to develop teaching activities for upper high school history and social science courses. (University of Ottawa)

• Technology Integration in the Curriculum
  Alberta Education's new program of studies entitled "Learner Outcomes in Information and Communication Technology ESC-12 Framework" describes how students from K-12 should use technology. This course has been specifically designed to help educators (in-service and pre-service) understand the role technology can play in the classroom and to develop some of the skills needed to integrate technology into classroom activities. (University of Alberta)

• Using Canadian Data in Curriculum Courses
  This assignment, designed for a social studies curriculum course, requires teacher candidates to develop a teaching activity for a grade 9 social studies class using E-STAT. (Brandon University)

• Investigating One's Practicum Community 
  Education students use the census database on E-STAT and the Statistical Profile of Canadian Communities to familiarize themselves with the demographic make-up of the community where they spend their practicum. A series of sequenced lessons using E-STAT are provided to research the make-up of a community for a "Schooling and Society" course. (Laurentian University)

• Group E-STAT Assignment - Getting Ethnicity & Race, Social Class and Gender Data for Local School Communities
  As a group, education students identify relevant demographic issues and then use the census database on E-STAT to extract related data for a number of different school communities in which they are practice teaching. Students submit the raw data as well as graphs, maps and tables, along with a short paper describing similarities and differences among the selected communities. (Laurentian University)

Geography

• Canada through the Census
  This second year geography assignment uses census data to explore the historic and contemporary differences between provinces in two regions of Canada. (University of British Columbia)

• Geography of Global Economic Systems
  Students in a second year economic geography course use E-STAT to generate graphs used in a short essay on the impact of agricultural chemicals. (University of Ottawa)

• Introductory Human Geography Assignment
  This second year human geography assignment uses the STC website and E-STAT to calculate the Human development index and build population pyramids for selected areas in Canada. (University of Winnipeg)
  
  
• Economic Geography
  This lab teaches how to use the CANSIM and Census databases on E-STAT for economic analysis through guided activities and content questions. (Camosun College)

• Regional Geography of Canada
  This assignment is designed to familiarize students with ways of describing and making comparisons among the regions of Canada using readily available statistics from E-STAT. Students construct population pyramids for two regions of Canada and then interpret the meaning and implications of these pyramids. (Brandon University)
  
  
• Census Assignment – Geography 450 (PDF document)
  In this 4^th year geography assignment, students write a major paper based on their in-depth data analysis of the Vancouver housing market using census data from E-STAT. (University of British Columbia)

Economics

• Urban Economics
  This third year urban economics assignment uses census of population data from E-STAT to compare two communities and prepare a term paper. (Brock University)

• Econometrics
  These assignments from an introductory econometrics course use detailed economic data from E-STAT to apply the economic concepts of 2-variable regression (PDF) and autocorrelation (PDF). (Dalhousie University)

History

• Using Early Censuses for Canadian Social History Courses
  This assignment is designed to introduce students to what early Canadian censuses (on E-STAT) can tell us about Canadian social and intellectual life. (Acadia University)
  
  
• Reference material – Le Bilan du Siècle – (available in French only) This is a collection of historical data (from CANSIM and elsewhere), images, and other materials for Quebec and Canada for the 20th century. (Université de Sherbrooke)

Social sciences

• Introductory Exercises on how to Find Numeric Data using the Daily and E-STAT
  These short exercises involve finding articles and numeric data from the Daily and E-STAT, and then working through an E-STAT lesson. (University of Winnipeg)
  
  
• Social science course assignments and resources
  A group of assignments and other statistical resource materials for social science courses (York University)

• Cybercities Assignment -Sociology Course
  In this essay assignment, students explore the characteristics of a selection of communities in the Greater Toronto Area using data collected from the Community Profiles module on the Statistics Canada web site. (York University)
  
  
• Quantitative approaches to ethnicity and ethno-racial inequality for a 3^rd year Sociology course called "Ethnicity, Power and Identity". In this assignment students use E-STAT to map ethnic groups by census tract and then use Beyond 20/20 to research the selected ethnic groups. (York University)

• Exploring the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI)
  More examples of postsecondary use of Statistics Canada data from DLI contacts and data librarians; see the DLI site for other training materials.

Statistics

• Data analysis case study projects for senior students in statistics for a presentation at the annual conference of the Statistical Society of Canada
  • 2005 – Longitudinal data analysis using NLSCY data
  • Case studies from previous years, including statistical datasets

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