In September 2009 the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education launched the ninth phase of the popular and useful CensusAtSchool project.Since its inception in 2000 more than 1.3 million school-aged learners and their teachers from around the world have participated in this project. As well as the UK, many countries have used the project and its resources to help raise statistical literacy standards in schools and elsewhere. The countries include South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The new New Zealand mathematics and statistics curriculum will be using the data from CensusAtSchool New Zealand to deliver their visionary and forward thinking new school programmes.
The Japanese Statistical Society is translating several of the freely available CensusAtSchool resources into Japanese for a pilot of the project in that country in 2009.
