1. What dataset will you use for your
final report? (title of your dataset,
include a link to it and claim it at the
URL above).
The title of my dataset is “Participation
in outdoor activities, by household income”, which can be found at https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=3810012301
on the Statistics Canada website.
2. Describe the dataset. What kind of
data does it contain?
This dataset is sourced from Stats Canada’s
“Households and the Environment Survey” and shows what outdoor activities people
who live in households under different income groups say they have participated
in during a given year. The outdoor activities they asked about are under 16
different sections, and are specified as being “within a ten minute journey
from home.” The data is from surveys
conducted in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. The income brackets run from under
$20,000, including households reporting “income loss,” to $150,000 and above,
with an additional bracket for those with an “income not stated.” There are quite a few activities that don't have any data at all for certain years because Stats Canada is not confident enough with those data points to publish them.
3. Is there anything about your data
that you don’t understand? (i.e.
what a column heading means). How will
you find this out?
No, I find the raw data here to be easy to
understand. I am curious as to why some of the activities were grouped together instead of stated separately but that is not a confusion with the data itself.
4. What are some questions you hope to
answer with your data? List at
least three. (you don’t need the answers
at this point)
I am curious to see which outdoor activity’s
numbers are the most different between the lowest income bracket and the
highest income bracket. Another question I hope to answer is if there are any
outdoor activities that have seen a drastic drop in popularity over time, and I
also want to find out if there are any outdoor activities that show to be less
popular the wealthier the household, and which those might be. If I can find a
way to see which activities are more popular in different places in Canada I
would be interested in that too.
