Statistical literacy: students in presenting data

Statistics have become a key component of the mathematics curriculum. At a basic level, by studying statistics, one can inference, read and present data in a more easily understood form known as statistical literacy. Everyone is in one of the roles of being a consumer and as a data producer. The core element of static literacy for consumers is the ability to read and interpret data in tables and graphs published by the national statistical office. The core element for producers is the ability to create clear, understandable tables, graphs and reports. The purpose of this research is to describe the student profile in presenting the data. Therefore, this study is a descriptive explorative qualitative. The subject comes from grade XII students MIA 9 SMA Negeri 3 Sidoarjo. Data were collected through a combination of interview methods with written task analysis. The result of the research shows that the subjects had the ability to describe data in the form of tables or diagrams in accordance with the desired information, including building an alternative view for a set of data, that is in the form of line diagrams, histograms, and pie diagrams, as well as frequency distribution table that referred to the purpose of data communication, regardless of the characteristics of a data. by paying attention to the characteristics of the data