What is the PSQ?

The PSQ is an annual contest designed to test first-year college students’ knowledge of statistics.

The 2001 PSQ, the tenth in the series, will be conducted on a nationwide basis involving students enrolled in colleges and universities in the National Capital Region and in the other 15 regions of the country.

What are the objectives of the PSQ?
The Philippine Statistical Association (PSA) and the NSO organize the PSQ every year since 1992. The PSQ has the following objectives:

To assess the competency and skills of students in statistics as acquired from the secondary education curriculum;

To promote, enhance, and instill awareness and appreciation of the importance and value of science, statistics in particular, among the studentry; and

To generate public awareness on the important uses of statistics in all development-planning activities and win overall support for all government statistical activities.

What is the significance of the PSQ?

PSQ is a laudable effort that strongly contributes to the building of scientific and technological manpower by helping identify and nurture talents especially in the field of statistics. Results of the contest can show indications of the effectiveness of the statistics component of mathematics as a subject of the secondary curriculum.

The PSQ Logo

View the logo from its bi-directional, yet concentric perspective. Enlarging circles emanating from southeast to northwest, calls your attention to the nationwide coverage and vision of the PSQ - statistics in the southeast corner draws your sights downwards from the definitive pointed end of the enlarging circles to the open hole that marks the central reference point. GOLD for knowledge.

The golden circle is the uncovered aperture created by the PSQ through which the youth and studentry (represented by the GREEN ) gain access to statistics. Statistics - Philippine style.

In its unadorned position within the square-shaped boundaries, the circle is also the tail of the "Q" (for Quiz) built-up by the positive-negative interplay of gold and green on white.

The PSQ is firmly cradled in the nurturing arms of her institutional supporters (BLUE corners in the northeast and southwest), especially her birthing parents - National Statistics Office and the Philippine Statistical Association.