<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper presents the perceptions of social science students about the use of official statistical data, in the context of active learning of Statistics, and other topics related to Applied Statistics. In order to make these courses more attractive, and to challenge and stimulate statistical education, our students work on projects in which they use official statistical data to explore practical, real-life issues. Their attitudes and perceptions regarding official statistical data sources are very important, both for acquisition of statistical analysis skills, essential for their future professional life, and for improvement of the official data sources. Therefore, we conducted a custom-made survey among students from Romanian higher education institutions (HEIs) and gathered a database with 334 responses, which allowed us to identify the main characteristics, problems and solutions concerning the use of statistical official data sources by university students.</p></abstract>

This paper presents the perceptions of social science students about the use of official statistical data, in the context of active learning of Statistics, and other topics related to Applied Statistics. In order to make these courses more attractive, and to challenge and stimulate statistical education, our students work on projects in which they use official statistical data to explore practical, real-life issues. Their attitudes and perceptions regarding official statistical data sources are very important, both for acquisition of statistical analysis skills, essential for their future professional life, and for improvement of the official data sources. Therefore, we conducted a custom-made survey among students from Romanian higher education institutions (HEIs) and gathered a database with 334 responses, which allowed us to identify the main characteristics, problems and solutions concerning the use of statistical official data sources by university students.

Investigating students’ use of official statistical data

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Statistics

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This paper presents the perceptions of social science students about the use of official statistical data, in the context of active learning of Statistics, and...

Investigating students’ use of official statistical data

Published Online: Feb 13, 2020

Page range: 329 - 342

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icas-2019-0029

Keywords
official statistical data sources, statistical analysis skills, descriptive statistics, statistical learning, active learning, National Institute of Statistics, Eurostat

© 2019 Constanța Mihăescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Investigating students’ use of official statistical data

Published Online: Feb 13, 2020

Page range: 329 - 342

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icas-2019-0029

Keywordsofficial statistical data sources, statistical analysis skills, descriptive statistics, statistical learning, active learning, National Institute of Statistics, Eurostat

© 2019 Constanța Mihăescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
official statistical data sources, statistical analysis skills, descriptive statistics, statistical learning, active learning, National Institute of Statistics, Eurostat