Statistical Project Competition for Secondary School Students Organised by the Hong Kong Statistical Society

Over the years, the Census and Statistics Department has been providing active support to the Statistical Project Competition (SPC) for Secondary School Students, an annual event having been organised by the Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS) since 1986/87.  The Commissioner for Census and Statistics is the patron of the competition, while many statistician grade staff members of the department have been proactively participating in the organisation and professional adjudication of SPC in the capacity of members of HKSS, with the aim of improving statistical literacy among secondary school students and promoting the application and importance of statistics in society. The key objectives of the competition are to promote the interest of secondary school students in research methods, statistics and statistical techniques; encourage students to understand the local community in a scientific and objective manner through the proper use of statistics; and promote a sense of civic awareness.

The 2023/24 round of competition received an encouraging response of 232 statistical projects from about 870 secondary school students, covering a broad spectrum of topics.  Participating students were able to utilise official statistics as the main source of data to analyse and interpret social and economic issues in Hong Kong.

For details, please visit the website of HKSS.