Resource B – Leading Questions Worksheet

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By handing this in, you are stating that this was a collective group effort.

Question 1. Discuss the distribution of the total incidence rates for cancer. Try to relate this to specific
regions of Hamilton such as Ancaster, Lower City, etc.

Question 2. Select the LAYERS button and switch to the “Lung Cancer Incidence per 1000 People…”
layer, turning off the “Cancer Incidence per 1000 people…” layer. Next, switch to the “Breast Cancer
Incidence per 1000 People…” layer. Are there any regional differences in incidence between these two
types of cancer?

Question 3. Still viewing the “Breast Cancer Incidence per 1000 People…” layer, apply a filter to the
data: select “Filter By Median Family Income”, “LESS THAN OR EQUAL”, and set the threshold to
60000. This will hide all regions of Hamilton where the median family income is GREATER than 60000,
allowing us to consider the breast cancer incidence within only those regions where MFI is less than or
equal to $60,000 (i.e. the poorest regions in Hamilton). What are some observations you can make
from the application of this filter? What is another filter that can be applied in this GIS application to
control for confounding variables?

Question 4. As a group, start to think of some research questions you may want to investigate in the

next tutorial.