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Canadian summary results for 2005/2006

Canada      Provinces and Territories

These data were collected as part of an international educational project; therefore, the Statistics Act does not apply to them. Schools participated voluntarily and were not part of a representative sample of the school population. These data should not be used as official statistics for formal research.

The survey was answered by 31,960 elementary and secondary students across Canada during the 2005/2006 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.

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1. Participation in Census at School, by age
2. Number of people in your household
3. What language do you most often speak at home?
4. Average height, by age
5. Average arm span, by age
6. Average length of forearm, by age
7. Average wrist circumference, by age
8. Average length of hand, by age
9. Average length of foot, by age
10. Average ratio of certain body measurements, by age
11. What colour are your eyes?
12. Do you have allergies? (elementary students only)
13. Right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous?
14. Median reaction time (elementary students only)
15. Median reaction time (secondary students only)
16. What do you usually eat for breakfast?
17. How many cigarettes a week do you usually smoke? (secondary students only)
18. Median number of hours per day spent doing certain activities (elementary students only)
19. Median number of hours per week spent doing certain activities (secondary students only)
20. How much pressure do you feel because of schoolwork?
21. What is your favourite physical activity? (elementary students only)
22. Have you done anything to control your weight in the past year? (secondary students only)
23. On how many days last week did you do an intense physical activity?
24. How do you usually get to school?
25. How long does it usually take you to travel to school?
26. What is your favourite subject?
27. How many times have you been bullied at school in the last month?
28. What gadgets do you have?
29. Which of the following pets do you have? (elementary students only)
30. Which method do you use most often to communicate with friends (secondary students only)
31. If you had $1,000 to donate to charity, what type of organisation would you choose?
32. What is the most important issue facing young Canadians today? (secondary students only)
33. Who do you look up to?
34. Plans for the year after high school (secondary students only)