1. What is the staple food in Indonesia?

Search terms used: staple, food, Indonesia

Answer: Rice is Indonesia's staple food
URL: http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEES/article/viewFile/17448/17680

2. What was the average hourly wage in Canada 2015 for workers over 25 years?

Search terms used: Canada, average, hourly, wage, age 2015 statistics, census, income, survey
Answer: The average hourly wage in Canada for workers 25 years and over 2016 was
CA$27.46. I came to this figure by getting the sum of the average hourly wage received by 25-54
year old workers (CA$27.83) and the average hourly wage received by those 55 years old and
over (CA$27.08) and dividing the sum of the said figures by 2. I also tried searching for annual
variations of income/wages aggregated by age to come up with the figures for 2015, but the
percentage I was able to find, 0.4% was in general and therefore will provide an inaccurate
estimate if used to find the average hourly wages received by 25 and older age brackets for 2015.
URL: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/labr69a-eng.htm

3. How many Australian children attended secondary school in 2011?

Search terms used: statistics, population, Australian, student, attend, secondary, school 2011
Answer: In 2011 there were 1,499,728 students attending secondary schools in Australia
URL:
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/4221.0Main%20Features30201
1?opendocument&tabname=Summary&prodno=4221.0&issue=2011&num=&view=

4. How many solar hot water systems were installed in Australia in 2010?

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Answer: 127,093 solar hot water systems were installed in Australia during 2010.
URL:
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0ahUKEwi
xqPSW3d3SAhWBU7wKHTDjCRoQFghLMAk&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleanenergycou
ncil.org.au%2Fdam%2Fcec%2Fpolicy-and-advocacy%2Freports%2F2015%2FClean-Energy-
Australia-Report-2014.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFcyLGr-
1aLhjIT3fYivflcHeY7Hg&bvm=bv.149760088,d.dGc
5. What were the three most polluted cities in the world in 2015?

Search terms used: Most Polluted Cities World 2015 rank

Answer:
1. Onitsha, Nigeria (30 times more than the WHO’s recommended levels of PM10 particles)
2. Peshawar, Pakistan
3. Zabol, Iran
(Urban Air Quality Data, collected between 2011 and 2015)
URL: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/which-are-the-world-s-most-polluted-cities/
Why?
Because:
a. Results from organisations (.org) or governments (.gov) should
provide credible sources of information;

b. According to the World Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines Global Update 2005
published on 2006, “At present, most routine air quality monitoring systems generate data based
on the measurement of PM10 as opposed to other particulate matter sizes.” Form the same
publication it also states that, “The PM2.5 guideline values are converted to the corresponding
PM10 guideline values by application of a PM2.5/PM10 ratio of 0.5. A PM2.5/PM10 ratio of 0.5 is
typical of developing country urban areas and is at the bottom of the range found in developed
country urban areas (0.5–0.8).” Therefore the ranking that used PM10 was accepted. This is
because although both particulate sizes are acceptable most data of medical significance would
be reported using PM10 as standard aside from the fact that values expressed in PM10 can be
converted to PM2.5 and vice versa (“PM10 is the more widely reported measure, and also the
indicator of relevance to the majority of the epidemiological data, for reasons that are discussed
below, the WHO AQGs for PM are based on studies that use PM2.5 as an indicator.”). The
question also specifically stated that we are to look for cities, and using the definition of the word
city from the dictionary (large or important town), it is safe to assume that the question pertains
to urban areas and that the PM10 standard (PM10 is the usual size of particulate matter from
construction activities and mechanical processes usually associated in urbanized areas) would be
more applicable as PM10 does not only include particles of PM10 but also PM2.5 (which is the size
of particulate matter produced by combustion of wood and other biomass fuels a practice more
predominant in rural areas) and matter of smaller particulate size that maybe suspended in the
atmosphere when the analysis of air quality was conducted.

REFERENCE

World Health Organization,. (2006). WHO Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone,
nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide (Global Update 2005) (pp. pages 10-11). 2006.