CENSUS ’97

A comprehensive survey on the OC class at Picnic Point Public School

At a Glance29

students in Senior

K

25 returned census papers

Gender

MaleFemale

Age Over half the class is 11 years old

9 years

10 years11 years

12 years

Place of Origin

Oceania

Asia

Europe

0

20

40

60

80

Country of Origin

Australia

Hong Kong

India

China

Scotland KoreaGreece

Russia

Malaysia

Vietnam

England

Suburb

RevesbyPanania

East Hills

Padstow Picnic Point

Menai

Padstow Heights

Chipping Norton

TechnologyTamagochi Computer

Yes

No

Yes

No

Cars

Number of Cars

Frequency

None 1

1 6

2 15

3 1

4 or over 2

On average, a family has 2 cars

PetsNearly 50% of people have

no pet

The most

common pet is a dog

No Pet

Dogs

Fish

Birds

Cats Others

Sydney’s Second Airport

Badgery's Creek

Holsworthy

No Airport

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

%

Personal CharacteristicsHair Colour Eye Colour

Black Brown Blonde0

20

40

60

80

100

Brown Blue Hazel0

20

40

60

80

100

Types of Music

PopJazzRapOtherRock 'n' RollClassical

Musical Groups

Human NatureHansonBoyz II MenSpice GirlsProdigyOffspringSilverchairOthers

Movies

Star WarsTwisterIndependence DayOther

Television Shows

SimpsonsAncient PropheciesOther

Comedy Shows

Third Rock from the SunFriendsThe NannySeinfieldMr Bean

Computer Software

Earthworm Jim OtherNone Consumer PowerCommand and Conquer

Sim City 2000

Worms Rebel AssaultKid Pix

Windows Versions

Windows 95Windows 3.1Windows NTNone

Favourite Colour

Blue

Green

Black

Purple

NoneRed

Band and Choir

52.2% of the class is in the

band

34.8% of the class is in the

choir

Musical Instruments

KeyboardPercussionDrumViolinWoodwindBrassNone

Coaching

Music Academic Sport Language Dancing None0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Occupation

DoctorLawyerVetUnsureJournalistArchitectCartoonistTeacherOther

2007 Postscript The original document mentioned Daniel Nguyen in the

acknowledgements. I thank him again for digitising the document after somehow managing to find it after all these years.

Some of the percentages are so small that they could not have possibly come from a survey of 25 people… which leads me to think that in some questions, respondents were allowed to choose more than one response, which invalidates the use of pie charts pretty badly.

On a similar note, some of the responses ended up being much smaller than the “Other” category, so I have taken the liberty of merging them into the “Other” category.

The numbers used in this presentation are by no means accurate. For quite a few charts, I simply held up my old faded protractor against the screen and measured the angles.