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• Soc 240: Introduction to Rural America ( More about this ) - A class activity requiring students to perform some simple data analysis of an instructor-compiled data set. Students learn basic concepts of data collection and analysis including crosstabulations and development and testing of hypotheses. Creator: Meredith Redlin Submitted on: 08/23/2010 Subject: rural areas Education Level: Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Activity Access Rights: Available by Subscription Relevance

• National Health Survey ( More about this ) - The survey was designed to obtain national benchmarks on a wide range of health issues, and to enable changes in health to be monitored over time. Information was collected about: the health status of the population; health-related aspects of lifestyle and other health risk factors; and the use of health services and other actions people had recently taken for their health." Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, health, public health Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Internet subscribers and Internet service providers ( More about this ) - The Internet Activity Survey (IAS) collects details on aspects of internet access services provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia on an annual basis. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: technology, Australia Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Households using the Internet ( More about this ) - Annual report of household and internet usage displayed through graphs and downloadable tables. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, technology Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• International Trade in Goods and Services ( More about this ) - Data source updated on quarterly basis to assess Australia's national balance of good and services, credits, and debits. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: trade, economics, commerce, Australia Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Balance of Payments and International Investment Position ( More about this ) - Data source updated on quarterly basis to assess Australia's national balance payments and international investments. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: economics, commerce, Australia Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Labour Price Index ( More about this ) - Data source updated on quarterly basis to assess changes in the Wage Price Index among the public and private sectors. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, economics, commerce, labor (work), inflation Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Producer Price Index ( More about this ) - Data source updated on quarterly basis to assess commodity price changes in different sectors and as an aggregate. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, inflation, economics, commerce Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Consumer Price Index ( More about this ) - Data source updated on quarterly basis to assess price changes in different sectors and as an aggregate. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, economics, inflation, commerce Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples ( More about this ) - Data tables and key summaries for topics of adult health, education, demographics, social and economic characteristics, mother and children health, and disability and career for Australia's indigenous population. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, demography, public health, socioeconomic status, minorities Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Average weekly earnings ( More about this ) - Contains summary and data tables on weekly earnings on quarterly basis. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, income Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Household Expenditure Survey ( More about this ) - This publication presents a summary of the results from the 2003-04 Household Expenditure Survey (HES), which was a subsample of the households comprising the 2003-04 Survey of Income and Housing (SIH). The HES collected information on the expenditure, income, net worth and other characteristics of households resident in private dwellings throughout Australia. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, income Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Report Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product ( More about this ) - Graphs to describe GDP on an annual and monthly basis. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, income Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Labour Force, Australia ( More about this ) - Graphs and tables to describe employment, unemployment, and labor force rates and numbers on an annual and monthly basis. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, labor (work), employment Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Crime and Safety Australia ( More about this ) - This publication presents the results of the sixth national Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) household survey of crime and safety conducted during April to July 2005. It forms part of the commitment by the ABS to present a comprehensive view of crime and the criminal justice system in Australia. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, crime, violence Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Report Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Building Approvals ( More about this ) - Graphs and tables to describe dwelling unit approvals on an annual and monthly basis. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Alcohol Consumption in Australia: A Snapshot ( More about this ) - This article provides an overview of the level, prevalence and type of alcohol consumption; the health status, risk factors and demographic characteristics of those who drink alcohol at risky or high risk levels; as well as information on mortality and health costs. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, demography, public health, mortality, alcohol/drug abuse Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Apparent Consumption of Alcohol ( More about this ) - This publication provides estimates of the apparent consumption of alcohol based on the availability of alcoholic beverages in Australia. It provides estimates of the quantity of pure alcohol available for consumption from beer, wine, spirits, and ready to drink (pre-mixed) beverages, plus estimates of the total volume of beer and wine available for consumption. Creator: Australian Bureau of Statistics Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: Australia, alcohol/drug abuse Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Database Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population ( More about this ) - Students use the current demographic profile of the Canadian population to predict changes to the demographics of the population over the next fifteen years. They then consider the potential challenges posed by an aging population. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, demography, population, elderly Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• What is a Family? ( More about this ) - Students examine data on family structure from Census 2006 and previous censuses focusing on issues such as family size, number of children and non-traditional family structures like common-law couples and same-sex couples. Students will turn data into illustrated or written profiles of Canadian households. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, demography, families Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Political parties and election results, 1997 and 2000 ( More about this ) - Students examine returns from the elections of 1997 and 2000 by region, and analyze the data both with visual representations such as graphs and charts and in written form by writing papers suggesting electoral strategies for various political parties. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, elections, voters Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Relevance

• Immigration: The Changing Face of Canada ( More about this ) - A lesson plan on immigration to Canada. Includes calculating immigration rates by province, identifying the factors leading to immigration to Canada and ranking the provinces by the number of immigrants that they receive. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: North America, immigration, migration/mobility, mapping Education Level: Middle School, High School Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Piecewise modeling with multiple functions: Federal Debt ( More about this ) - This lesson, from Statistics Canada's E-Stat, asks students to model the Canadian federal debt since independence in 1867 using a piecewise function containing exponential, linear and quadratic periods. Also teaches the use of r^2 tests to determine what function best models a scatter plot. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: debt, North America Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Change in private sector employer-provided pension insurance coverage, 1979-2006 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data showing the change in private sector employer-provided pension insurance coverage from 1979 to 2006 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Lawrence Mishel Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: , labor (work), jobs, insurance Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Change in private sector employer-provided health insurance coverage, 1979-2006 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data showing the change in private sector employer-provided health insurance coverage from 1979 to 2006 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Lawrence Mishel Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: workers, labor (work), jobs, health care, insurance Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Decomposition of total and within-group wage inequality, 1973-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data showing the decomposition of total and within-group wage inequality for the nation from 1973 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Lawrence Mishel Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: workers, income, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Productivity and median and average compensation, 1973-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on productivity and median and average compensation for the nation from 1973 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Lawrence Mishel Submitted on: 07/07/2010 Subject: workers, income, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Estimated wage premium for college and high school graduates, 1973-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on national estimates of wage premiums for college and high school graduates from 1973 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: workers, income, jobs, educational attainment, higher education Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (25 years and older), annual averages ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on national averages of median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: workers, income, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Women's real hourly wage by education, 1973-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on national women's real hourly wages for all workers by education from 1973 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: workers, income, educational attainment, gender, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Men's real hourly wage by education, 1973-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on national men's real hourly wages for all workers by education from 1973 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: workers, income, educational attainment, gender, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Real hourly wage for all by education, 1973-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on national real hourly wages for all workers by education from 1973 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: workers, income, educational attainment, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers, 1947-2007 ( More about this ) - Individual data table with data on national hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers from 1947 to 2007 provided by the Economic Policy Institute's State of Working America 2008/2009. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: workers, income, occupations, labor (work), jobs Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Sinusoidal modelling of Canada's youth cohorts ( More about this ) - Exercise using census data and statistical software to model the size of the 20-24 year old cohort with the independent variable as the number of years since 1971. The scatter plot fits a sine curve with peaks around 1983 and a second peak around 2010. Helps students understand applications of algebra and the demographic history of Canada. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, demography, birth rates Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• "Linear modelling of the life expectancy of Canadians ( More about this ) - A module, from E-Stats, in which students will calculate the relationship between time and life expectancy in Canada using a linear model. Students should be familiar with y=mx+b linear equations, this module will teach the ways that they can be applied to scatter plots and real data. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, public health, health, mortality Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Canada's immigration patterns, 1955 to Present ( More about this ) - A module, through E-Stats that allows users to generate time plots on immigration flows to Canada from specific areas. Allows students to learn how to use time plots and also teaches them that immigration to Canada is decreasing from Europe while increasing from Asia. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, migration/mobility Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Lesson/Lesson Plan, Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• E-Stat ( More about this ) - A student data analysis software from Statistics Canada, licensed exclusively for use at schools. The web based software allows students to make charts and tables and preform elementary analysis of Census data. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: North America, demography, census Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Database Access Rights: Available for Purchase Relevance

• Comparing the food choices and body image of 15-year-olds around the world ( More about this ) - Students compare lifestyles, with a focus on nutrition, between Canada and other countries. Students will use E-Stat, a simple tool from Statistics Canada for making tables and graph and performing elementary work with data. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: health, North America, youths Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School Type: Activity Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Life expectancy at birth by health region, 2001 ( More about this ) - Map showing life expectancy in selected regions of Canada (sparsely populated regions are excluded). Life expectancy is coded as significantly lower, significantly higher or not significantly different from the national average of 79.5. Data are correct as of the 2001 census. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: health, public health, mortality, North America Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Map Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Census Families 1921-2006 ( More about this ) - Short flash video , explaining changing trends in families over the course of the censuses between 1921 and 2006 in Canada. Discusses the social and cultural factors that may have lead to demographic changes. Creator: Statistics Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: demography, families, North America Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division) Type: Movie/Animation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Global Annual Temperature Scenario: 2100 ( More about this ) - World map, based on 1975-1995 data, shows the projected changes in global temperature due to human activity by area of the world, by the period 2080-2100. Suggests the effects of global climate change will be varied by region, with some areas facing more serious warming than others, but that the effects of warming are likely to be drastic and widespread. Creator: Natural Resources Canada Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: climate, pollution Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Map Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Economy Tack: Capacity Utilization ( More about this ) - This time plot allows users to see the decline in capacity utilization during each recession since 1973. Also shows industry specific capacity utilization for manufacturing in general and for durable good and auto manufacturing specifically. Creator: Economic Policy Institute Submitted on: 07/06/2010 Subject: economics Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• NCSA Annual Meeting ( More about this ) - The NCSA Annual Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency at the Arcade in Cincinnati, OH, on March 31 - April 2, 3011. The theme of the event is: "Pragmatism in Research and Education." Creator: NCSA Submitted on: 06/29/2010 Education Level: Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Access Rights: Available by Subscription Relevance

• Gapminder for Teachers ( More about this ) - Gapminder uses animated graphs to demonstrate trends in human and economic development and the relation. This is the main page for teachers who want to use Gapminder in their teaching and has links to the main Gapminder interface as well as ways to use Gapminder offline. Creator: Gapminder Submitted on: 06/28/2010 Subject: economics, public health, trend Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: Graph Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Economics Third Edition ( More about this ) - Companion website to Stiglitz and Walsh's introductory text in economics. Contains lectures, tutorials and quizzes for each chapter. Intended to go with an introductory class covering the basics of both macroeconomics and microeconomics. Creator: Joseph Stiglitz, Carl Walsh Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: economics Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Textbook Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Agriculture, Value Added (% of GDP) ( More about this ) - Data for the percentage of national economies accounted for by agriculture. Agriculture accounts for 3% of gross world product and decreasing, but much higher in some, especially developing, countries. Creator: World Bank Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: economics, agriculture Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) ( More about this ) - Percentage of GDP accounted for by gross capital formation (essentially gross investment) in 2005-2008 (data are not available for each year for each country). Creator: World Bank Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: economics, business Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• GDP Growth Rate (annual %) ( More about this ) - Real GDP growth rates for the years 2005-2008. 2008 growth worldwide was 1.7%, lower than normal as a result of the recession. Developing economies are generally growing more quickly than developed economies. Creator: World Bank Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: economics, business, industry Education Level: Middle School, High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division), Graduate/Professional Type: List/Table Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Human Development Trends, 2005 ( More about this ) - An animated lesson from the UN development program on the progress and failure of efforts to improve standards of living and, above all, reduce child and infant mortality. Student can go through the lesson on his/her own at his/her own pace. Creator: UN Development Program Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: health, public health, infant mortality, economics Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Movie/Animation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance

• Paved Roads and Economic Growth ( More about this ) - Scatter plot relating the percentage of roads which are paved and the economic growth over the following ten years. Can be used as a discussion of the value of correlation. There seems to be little correlation between growth and quality of infrastructure. Is that because wealthy countries tend to have both less room for growth and better infrastructure? The scatter plot is animated for the period leading up to 1994 (from growth data leading up to 2004). Creator: Gapminder World Submitted on: 06/24/2010 Subject: economics, statistical models Education Level: High School, Undergraduate (Lower Division), Undergraduate (Higher Division) Type: Movie/Animation Access Rights: Free Access Relevance