What is the Statistics Competition?

The Statistics Competition is a competition organized by the Statistical Service of Cyprus, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Statistical Society, with the aim to promote statistical literacy, curiosity and interest in official statistics among students and teachers. It is a part of the European Statistics Competition organized by volunteering NSIs and Eurostat.

The main objectives of the competition are to promote curiosity and interest in statistics among students, to encourage teachers to use new materials for teaching statistics by promoting the use of real data provided by official statistics and search for applications of acquired statistical knowledge. Moreover, it aims to show the role of statistics to students and teachers in various aspects of society, and to promote teamwork and collaboration among students to achieve common goals.

The competition will be structured in two phases: a national competition organized by the national authorities and the European final organized by Eurostat. The first two teams of each category of the national competitions, are eligible to take part in the European final. The languages of the national competition will be Greek and English while the European final will be in English.

The national competition will take place during the period October 2020 – March 2021 and the European final between April and May of 2021.

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Previous editions of the competition:

Statistics Competition 2019-2020

Statistics Competition 2018-2019

Statistics Competition 2017-2018

Participation

To register your team, please visit this site: Register your team.

To access the national competition assignments please visit: National phase assignments.

Calendar

National phase:

Registration period: from October 20th to November 20th, 2020.
Testing period for the first assignment: December 22nd, 2020.
Publication and communication of the results of the first assignment: January 11th, 2021.
Submission of the second assignment: from January 25th to March 8th, 2021.
Announcement of winning teams: March 29th, 2021.
Award ceremony: June 28th, 2021.

European phase:

(https://www.esc2021.eu)

Announcement of European topic: October/November, 2020.
Assignment period: from April 7th to May 9th, 2021.
Announcement of winning teams: May 26th, 2021.
Award ceremony: Form, place and date are still to be determined and will depend on the course of events related to the COVID-19 crisis.

Rules

The Statistics Competition is open to all secondary-age students of officially recognized educational institutions of Cyprus. Participation will take place in two categories:

Category A: Upper Secondary [Students of A',B',C' Lyceum* aged up to 18 years on 31/12/2020]
Category B: Lower secondary [Students of A',B',C' Gymnasium aged up to 16 years on 31/12/2020]

* Students attending the seventh grade of an educational institution are allowed to participate in the Upper Secondary Category provided that they comply with the age restriction.

Participation is free of charge and there can be a maximum of 3 teams from the same institution.

Students will work in teams of 2 to 3, all of them from the same school and category. All teams must have a teacher from their school acting as a tutor, who will supervise their work and generally perform a coordinating role and communicate with the organizers. The tutors can supervise up to 2 teams.