Who Survived the Titanic? Printable Data Activity

A free, two-page printable for students: the official 1912 survival figures for Titanic by class, sex and age, with a graphing task and questions. For the full story, see Titanic survivors and Titanic facts and statistics.

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Data activity

Who Survived the Titanic?

Your chance of surviving depended on your ticket and whether you were a man, a woman or a child. Use the official figures to find out how much.

Table 1: Survival by class

GroupAboardSavedLost% saved
First class passengers32520312262%
Second class passengers28511816741%
Third class passengers70617852825%
Crew88521267324%
Total2,2017111,49032%

Table 2: Passengers by class and group

ClassGroupAboardSaved% saved
FirstMen1755733%
Women14414097%
Children66100%
SecondMen168148%
Women938086%
Children2424100%
ThirdMen4627516%
Women1657646%
Children792734%
Why are there different totals? These figures come from the British inquiry of 1912. The US Senate inquiry counted slightly differently: 2,223 aboard and 706 saved. Historians still revise the numbers as new records are found, which is why most books say “about 2,224 aboard and about 1,500 died”.
Source: Report of the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912 (titanicinquiry.org).Page 1
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Your turn

Graph it, then explain it

1. Draw a bar graph of the % saved for each group in Table 1. Label both axes and give your graph a title.

  1. Which group had the best chance of survival? Which had the worst?
  2. A third class child had a lower chance of surviving than a first class man or a first class woman. Use Table 2 to check this. Is it true?
  3. The rule on the night was “women and children first”. Do the figures show that the rule was followed equally in every class? Give evidence.
  4. Suggest two reasons why third class passengers were less likely to survive.
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