📊 Part 1: Planning Your Data Collection

1. What is your investigative question about your community?

2. Which variables will you measure to answer your question?

Age groups

Favourite activities

Time spent (hours/minutes)

Distance travelled (kilometres)

Cost ($)

Other: ____________________

3. Who is your group of interest (the people you will collect data from)?

4. How will you collect your data ethically and accurately?

🔍 Part 2: Data Collection and Error Checking

5. Record your collected data below. Check for errors as you go!

6. What types of errors did you find in your data? Tick all that apply:

Missing data

Inconsistent entries (e.g., "5" vs "five")

Unrealistic values

Spelling mistakes

No errors found

7. Describe any important conditions or issues during your data collection:

8. Create a frequency table for your data:

9. Draw a bar graph or dot plot of your data:

10. What patterns do you notice in your data? Consider distribution, centre, and trends:

11. How do your findings answer your original investigative question?

12. How could poor data collection methods make your results misleading?