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Ireland’s Top Motors

The Central Statistics Office Data Visualisation tool for Ireland’s top motors presents annual data on private cars, commercial vehicles, motor cycles and tractors in graphical form. It will allow users to follow trends in fuel types, colours and top makes. People can also rank their own car model for a particular month.

Maths teacher, James Carroll, has created some lesson activities to accompany the online data tool as follows;

Identifying the Most Popular Car by Month
Calculating the Total Car Sales for a Particular Month
Calculating the number of sales of the most popular car in a particular month as a % of the total number of sales in that month.
Tracking the Popularity of Your Car From 2014 to 2019
Trends of Fuel Types
Percentage of Imported Cars

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Brexit Indicators

The Central Statistics Office Data Visualisation tool to track key indicators on the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom. The information is displayed graphically and links directly to the CSO databank so that the most recent data available is always shown.

Maths teacher, James Carroll, has created some lesson activities to accompany the online tool as follows;

Calculating the percentage of Ireland’s Trade in Services (Imports) that comes from the United Kingdom
Interpreting the Trade in Services (Imports) Combined Bar Chart/ Trend Graph.
Ireland’s Trade in Services (Exports) using the charts
Calculating a Rolling Annual %
Calculating the average spend by Irish residents on trips to Great Britain and other countries.

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House Prices by Eircode

The CSO Data Visualisation tool provides everyone with easy access to valuable information regarding the residential property market in a given area. To use it, people can enter the first three characters of their Eircode or type in the name of their area. They can then compare the average price of residential property sold in their area over the last 12 months with the national average price.

Maths teacher, James Carroll, has created some lesson activities to accompany the online CSO data tool as follows;

Searching for Your Area
Compare the Median price of residential properties in your area to the National Median price of residential properties
Comment on the Distribution of Buyer Types in Your Area Using the Pie Chart that was Generated
Comment on the Trend in Volume of Sales by Dwelling Status from January 2010.

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Baby Names of Ireland

The Central Statistics Office online Data Visualisation Tool enables students to search how popular Irish baby names were/are in any given year in Ireland from 1964 to present. Using this tool students can see the popularity of their own name, or the names of their family, friends etc.

Maths teacher, James Carroll, has created some lesson activities to accompany the online CSO Data Visualisation Tool;