These data were collected as part of an international educational project. Schools participated voluntarily and were not part of a representative sample of the school population.
The survey was answered by 22,643 elementary and secondary students across Canada during the 2004/2005 school year. The elementary category includes grades 4 to 8 (secondary 2 in Quebec) and the secondary category includes grades 9 to 12 (secondary 3 to 5 in Quebec).
Two questionnaires were used, one for elementary and the other for secondary students. Each questionnaire contains some questions that are specific to elementary or secondary students only.
Note that percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.
Summary results for Canada, 2004/2005
- Number of people in your household
- Participation in Census at School, by age
- Average height in centimetres, by age
- Average hand span in centimetres, by age
- Average wrist circumference in millimetres, by age
- Average length of foot in centimetres, by age
- What colour are your eyes?
- Do you have allergies? (elementary only)
- What do you usually have for breakfast?
- What do you drink when you’re thirsty? (elementary only)
- How many cigarettes do you smoke per week?(secondary only)
- Time spent on sports-related activities in the last week
- Activities done in the last two weeks (elementary only)
- Time spent on various activities in the last week (secondary only)
- How do you get to school?
- Average time spent to get to school
- Average time spent to get to school, by mode of transportation
- What is your favourite subject?
- How many times were you bullied at school in the last year?
- How many times did you drop litter in the last week?
- Which of these gadgets do you have?
- What pets do you have? (elementary only)
- Who do you admire?
- What are your plans for the year after high school? (secondary only)
