Information about you and your family is held by many organisations. This information is held for a purpose.Here are some of the people or organisations who are likely to hold information about you:

Passport Office Dentist The Post Office The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency School Supermarket Gym

For each of the organisations in the above list write down some items of data they would hold and the reasons they need it.

Data stored Reasons Passport Office

Dentist

The Post Office

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

School

Supermarket

Gym

Write your answers in the table.

Assuming that the following data is about a person who can be identified, would you consider each of the following items of data to be personal or not? The best way to approach this is to decide whether you would feel annoyed if someone knew this information about you. Your teacher will discuss this with you and the rest of the class after you have completed the table.

Information Personal Not personal

1 Eye colour

2 Religion

3 Height

4 Shoe size

5 Favourite singer/band

6 Date of birth

7 Postcode

8 Gender

9 Whether you smoke

10 A photograph of yourself

11 Medical history (e.g. medical problems, operations etc.)

12 Weight

13 Amount of pocket money given

14 Status of parent (e.g. married, divorced, single etc.)

15 Favourite football team

‘People have a much higher standard of living in the south-east of England compared with other parts of the UK’?

Here is a list of questions which were used in the 1971 Census. Look at each question in the list and decide whether it is relevant for testing this hypothesis and add a reason for your choice. The first question has been completed for you.

Question Relevant? Reason

Type of accommodation (terrace, semi, detached)

Yes Could indicate wealth with detached houses costing more (note: this may not always be true as a terraced house in London could cost a lot more than a detached house elsewhere)

Central heating available?

General health of each person at the address

Ownership of accommodation?

Academic and vocational qualifications? (GCSEs, A levels, degrees)

Country of birth

Religion

Car/van ownership?

How people in household travel to work

Address one year ago

Names of the people living at the address

Hours worked in main job for each person who works

Does household have sole use of a bath/shower and toilet

Ethnic group

The steps you need to take when doing this project match the main steps in the system life cycle. It is important that these steps are taken in the right order.

Here are the series of steps but they are not in the right order:EvaluateDesignIdentifyTestImplementAnalysePut these steps on the diagram in the correct positions.

Here are the descriptions of the activities that make up the system life cycle and the terms used. They are jumbled up, so your task is to join the correct activity with the correct term by drawing a line between them.

Activity TermMake sure the system works correctly IdentifyAn outline of the problem TestCreate the new system EvaluateLook at the needs of the system ImplementRefine the system AnalysePlan the parts of the system Design