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Data Collection Basics

Charlie, Xavier and Grace are helping at an art gallery. Use the information on this page to investigate how data is collected and recorded.

Understanding data

Data is information collected to help answer a question. It can be grouped into categories or recorded as numbers.

1.The gallery wants to find out which art activity visitors enjoy most. What is data?
  • Information collected to answer a question
  • Only a list of numbers
  • A picture with no information
2.The gallery records each visitor's favourite activity: painting, sculpting or sketching. Is this categorical or numerical data?
3.Which question collects numerical data?
  • Which painting do you like best?
  • How many paintings did you see today?
  • What is your favourite colour?

Record the gallery survey

Charlie asked 12 visitors which activity they would most like to try. The results are shown below. Each tally bundle of five is written as four upright marks crossed by a fifth mark.

Activity

Tally

Visitors

Painting

||||/ ||

7

Sculpting

||||

4

Sketching

|

1

4.How many visitors chose sculpting?
5.How many visitors were asked altogether? Show how you worked it out.
6.Which activity was most popular, and how many more visitors chose it than sketching?
7.Xavier makes a tally for 8 visitors who chose painting. Write the tally using one bundle of five and three extra marks.
8.Grace asks visitors, “What is your favourite kind of art?” Is this a useful survey question for finding the most popular gallery activity? Explain your answer.
9.Write one survey question the gallery could ask to collect numerical data about its visitors.
10.Why should Charlie record each visitor's answer carefully and only count it once?

3 printable pages

  • Data Collection Basics, page 1 of 3: Understanding data

    Page 1

  • Data Collection Basics, page 2 of 3: Record the gallery survey

    Page 2

  • Data Collection Basics, page 3 of 3: 8. Grace asks visitors, “What is your favourite kind of art?” Is this a useful survey

    Page 3

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