Just click on the Cases tab at the top of the cards and the data will appear.Įach data card holds the answers to the survey questions for each student in this sample of 100 Australian students who completed the Census at School survey. If the data cards do not open on the Cases tab, you might think that you don’t have any data. Double click on the “collection” icon and you will see the data cards for your class. This icon shows that we have a collection of data.

So, now open the Fathom file that you have previously saved and click on the “maximize’ box to make the Fathom window take up the full screen. I am assuming that you have already downloaded a random data sample from the international Census at School website and have imported it into Fathom. We can create graphs using categorical and numeric data-both discrete and continuous- and find mean, median, mode, standard deviation and line of best fit, as well. Using Fathom, we can do one and two variable analysis. In this episode, we will look at how to use the statistical program Fathom to analyse a dataset taken from the international Census at School database.įathom is a dynamic data analysis software program from Key Curriculum Press that is licensed in many school boards across Canada. Hi, I’m Angela McCanny and I’m a resource teacher for Statistics Canada. To access the Rich-Text Format (RTF) version, use the document conversion features available in most word processing software, or use a file viewer capable of reading RTF. In this episode, we will look at how to use the statistical program Fathom, to analyse a dataset taken from the International Census at School database. Most of the information is still relevant.

NOTE: These videos were prepared when the Census at School Project was managed by Statistics Canada.

Fathom graphing software