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 my School Community: An Introduction to E-STAT
  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 Project on Comparing Different Practicum Communities – 2001
  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)
• 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)
• Human Geography
  Students use Statistics Canada and other sources to calculate the Human Development Index for Canada, selected provinces and other countries. They also generate and compare population pyramids for different countries and regions within Canada. (University of Winnipeg)
• Population Geography
  This guide helps students find relevant data for course assignments on migration and immigration in Canada. Included are brief tutorials on how to use Statistics Canada’s E-STAT and Community Profiles. (University of Winnipeg).

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)

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

• 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