Summary Tables

We have provided some summary tables to give you the responses from a variety of questions on the CensusAtSchool NZ survey conducted in August-September 2003. We have not summarised every variable in the data base because we want to encourage students to pose statistical questions and investigate the data for themselves.

• Total students taking part by year level:




	Year 5	Year 6	Year 7	Year 8	Year 9	Year 10
Number	2244	2834	1945	2131	4573	3932
%	13	16	11	12	26	22

• Total students taking part by gender:




	Boys	Girls
Number	8108	9551
%	46	54

• Technology - Are you connected?




Technology access	% Year 5-6	% Year 7-8	% Year 9-10
Cellphone	13	32	57
Computer	83	88	90
Internet	70	79	84
Calculator	58	78	92

• Skipping - Are boys or girls the quickest at skipping? Here are the mean number of skips:




Gender	Year 5	Year 6	Year 7	Year 8
Boys	1.4	1.5	1.6	1.7
Girls	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.8
All students	1.5	1.6	1.7	1.7

• Breakfast - Breakfast food choices by year groups




Item	% Year 5-6	% Year 7-8	% Year 9-10
Milk	34	32	30
Coffee/Tea/Milo	29	29	26
Juice	21	20	19
Toast/Bread	43	44	41
Cereal	54	49	42
Fruit	17	18	16
Other	8	7	10
Nothing	5	8	13

Note: Percentages will not add to 100 as students could pick as many items as they had.

• Region - total students taking part by region




Region	Count	%
Auckland	7825	44
Bay of Plenty	478	3
Canterbury	2025	11
Gisbourne	114	1
Hawkes Bay	455	3
Manawatu-Wanganui	1065	6
Nelson-Marlborough	737	4
Northland	545	3
Otago	685	4
Southland	293	2
Taranaki	520	3
Waikato	1457	8
Wellington	1716	10
West Coast	131	1

• Favourite subject at school




Secondary Students (Year 9, 10)

Favourite Subject	% Boys	% Girls
Art	8	18
Computer/Information technology	8	3
Dance or Drama	4	13
Ecomonics	1	1
English	4	7
Graphics	5	2
Foreign Languages	3	5
Maori	2	3
Mathematics	6	5
Music	5	4
Physical Education/Health	33	18
Science	6	5
Social Studies	3	5
Technology - food & textiles	3	5
Technology - design & materials	9	5




Intermediate Students (Year 7, 8)

Favourite Subject	% Boys	% Girls
Art	15	24
Computer/Information technology	11	2
Dance or Drama	4	21
Ecomonics	0	0
English	2	6
Graphics	1	0
Foreign Languages	1	2
Maori	1	2
Mathematics	8	5
Music	4	4
Physical Education/Health	31	16
Science	4	3
Social Studies	1	2
Technology - food & textiles	7	8
Technology - design & materials	10	5




Primary Students (Year 5, 6)

Favourite Subject	% Boys	% Girls
Art	29	41
Computing/Information Technology	12	4
Dance or Drama	4	20
English	4	7
Maori	1	2
Maths	19	10
Music	3	4
Physical Education/Health	13	6
Science	6	3
Social Studies	1	1
Technology/Design	7	2

• Mean Reaction time (in seconds) by dominant hand and gender




Dominant hand	Boys	Girls
Left	1.18	1.23
Right	0.77	0.92

• Travel time to school in minutes by region (% of students)




Region	0-10	11-20	21-30	31-40	41-50	51-60	>60
Auckland	8	59	8	0	25	0	0
Bay of Plenty	23	47	4	0	26	0	0
Canterbury	66	21	13	0	0	0	0
Gisbourne	85	15	0	0	0	0	0
Hawkes Bay	12	79	9	0	0	0	0
Manawatu-Wanganui	61	39	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson-Marlborough	18	82	0	0	0	0	0
Northland	27	46	27	0	0	0	0
Otago	64	10	26	0	0	0	0
Southland	61	20	18	0	0	0	0
Taranaki	32	54	14	0	0	0	0
Waikato	18	60	23	0	0	0	0
Wellington	60	13	27	0	0	0	0
West Coast	41	0	6	6	0	0	48