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The Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) is a national survey that enables Statistics Canada to provide detailed information on enrolments and graduates of Canadian public postsecondary institutions in order to meet policy and planning needs in the field of postsecondary education.
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  • 1. Estimating the international student population in Canada using administrative data: A feasibility study 2025/2026
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202612541235
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-05-05
  • 2. Feasibility study: Estimating the international student population in Canada using administrative data
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2026001
    Description: Following significant changes introduced by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to the international education program, this study aims to assess the feasibility of developing a system to produce up-to-date estimates of international students enrolled in public postsecondary institutions in Canada. Based on survey data and complemented by two administrative data sources, these estimates will address an important data need and provide a clearer picture of the potential impact that immigration policies have had on international postsecondary education in Canada, particularly for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic years.
    Release date: 2026-05-05
  • 3. Education Indicators in Canada: Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
    Table: 81-582-X
    Description: The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes.

    PCEIP products include data tables, fact sheets, an interactive dashboard, a data explorer, and a handbook. They present indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, and include year over year comparisons.

    The PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.
    Release date: 2026-03-25
  • 4. National and provincial retention of graduates from health degree programs in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600200002
    Description: A shortage of health care professionals, especially family doctors and nurses, has been a widespread concern from coast to coast to coast. Few studies have examined recent trends in the retention of health care professionals. In particular, questions remain about whether outmigration pressures exert influence and how retention varies across specialties and regions. This article aims to examine health graduates' retention in Canada and in their province of study during the first few years after completing Canadian postsecondary programs, relying on data from the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and T1 Family File (T1FF).
    Release date: 2026-02-25
  • 5. Technical Reference Guides for the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-0001
    Description: These reference guides are intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The guide provides an overview of the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), the general methodology used to create longitudinal indicators, and important technical information for users.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 6. Graduation of career, technical or professional training certificate students, within Canada, by student characteristics
    Table: 37-10-0136-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Graduation rates, average time to graduation and number of students in an entry cohort for college-level certificate students, within Canada, by demographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 7. Graduation of career, technical or professional training diploma students, within Canada, by student characteristics
    Table: 37-10-0136-02
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Graduation rates, average time to graduation and number of students in an entry cohort for college-level diploma students, within Canada, by demographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 8. Persistence and graduation of undergraduate degree students, within Canada, by student characteristics
    Table: 37-10-0136-03
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Persistence rates, graduation rates, average time to graduation and number of students in an entry cohort for undergraduate degree students, within Canada, by demographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 9. Graduation of master's degree students, within Canada, by student characteristics
    Table: 37-10-0136-04
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Graduation rates, average time to graduation and number of students in an entry cohort for master's degree students, within Canada, by demographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 10. Persistence and graduation of doctoral degree students, within Canada, by student characteristics
    Table: 37-10-0136-05
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Persistence rates, graduation rates, average time to graduation and number of students in an entry cohort for doctorate degree students, within Canada, by demographic characteristics.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
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  • 1. Estimating the international student population in Canada using administrative data: A feasibility study 2025/2026
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202612541235
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-05-05
  • 2. Feasibility study: Estimating the international student population in Canada using administrative data
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2026001
    Description: Following significant changes introduced by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to the international education program, this study aims to assess the feasibility of developing a system to produce up-to-date estimates of international students enrolled in public postsecondary institutions in Canada. Based on survey data and complemented by two administrative data sources, these estimates will address an important data need and provide a clearer picture of the potential impact that immigration policies have had on international postsecondary education in Canada, particularly for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic years.
    Release date: 2026-05-05
  • 3. National and provincial retention of graduates from health degree programs in Canada
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600200002
    Description: A shortage of health care professionals, especially family doctors and nurses, has been a widespread concern from coast to coast to coast. Few studies have examined recent trends in the retention of health care professionals. In particular, questions remain about whether outmigration pressures exert influence and how retention varies across specialties and regions. This article aims to examine health graduates' retention in Canada and in their province of study during the first few years after completing Canadian postsecondary programs, relying on data from the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and T1 Family File (T1FF).
    Release date: 2026-02-25
  • 4. International student enrolments at Canadian public colleges, 2014/2015 and 2023/2024
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025048
    Description: Comparison of international student enrolments at Canadian public colleges between 2014/2015 and 2023/2024 by province of study, country of citizenship, and field of study, using Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) data.
    Release date: 2025-11-20
  • 5. Education Indicators in Canada: Fact Sheet
    Journals and periodicals: 81-599-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: The fact sheets in this series provide an "at-a-glance" overview of particular aspects of education in Canada and summarize key data trends in selected tables published as part of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP).

    The PCEIP mission is to publish a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada for policy makers, practitioners and the general public to monitor the performance of education systems across jurisdictions and over time. PCEIP is a joint venture of Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC).

    Release date: 2025-10-24
  • 6. Did young adults who attended a French-language high school continue their postsecondary studies in French? A look at the situation in Canada outside Quebec in 2021
    Articles and reports: 89-657-X2025006
    Description: This study examines the language of instruction at the first college or university attended by young adults who went to a French-language high school in Canada outside Quebec, by their region of residence and field of study. This study is based on integrated data from the Postsecondary Students Information System and the 2021 Census of Population.
    Release date: 2025-10-08
  • 7. Study: The postsecondary academic paths of young adults who attended a French-language high school, Canada outside Quebec 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202528139441
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-10-08
  • 8. The doctoral degree experience in Canada: The road to graduation
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025040
    Description: This infographic provides details on the graduation rate and time to graduation of doctoral students up to ten years after their first enrollment, by STEM and BHASE groupings.
    Release date: 2025-07-22
  • 9. Geographic mobility indicators of Canadian undergraduate degree holders
    Articles and reports: 37-20-00012025002
    Description: This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) who are interested in Statistics Canada's geographic mobility indicators of undergraduate degree holders. The data come from the integration of administrative data from the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and the T1 Family File (T1FF), and this technical reference guide describes the methodology used to produce these indicators.
    Release date: 2025-06-17
  • 10. Geographic mobility of Canadian bachelor’s degree graduates, 2012 to 2021
    Articles and reports: 81-595-M2025002
    Description: The geographic mobility of postsecondary graduates—where they were before their studies, where they studied, and where they went to work after graduation—is of great interest to provinces and territories because education is under their jurisdiction and graduates are synonymous with skilled workers. This article takes advantage of new tables published by Statistics Canada on the geographic mobility of Canadian undergraduate degree (or bachelor's) graduates from 2012 to 2021. It sheds light on the following questions: Which provinces attract postsecondary students to their provinces? Are the provinces successful in retaining the bachelor's graduates they have trained and integrating them into their labour market? Which provinces have net gains in graduates? And most importantly, what are the trends over the years?
    Release date: 2025-06-17
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Reference (15) (0 to 10 of 15 results)

  • 1. Technical Reference Guides for the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-0001
    Description: These reference guides are intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The guide provides an overview of the Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) and the Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS), the general methodology used to create longitudinal indicators, and important technical information for users.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 2. Persistence and graduation indicators of postsecondary students, 2011/2012 to 2023/2024
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012025003
    Description: This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are based on the longitudinal Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data files. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators of public postsecondary students including persistence rates, graduation rates, and average time to graduation by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces, and the three combined Territories.
    Release date: 2025-12-17
  • 3. Persistence and graduation indicators of postsecondary students, 2011/2012 to 2022/2023
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012024003
    Description: This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are based on the longitudinal Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data files. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators of public postsecondary students including persistence rates, graduation rates, and average time to graduation by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces, and the three combined Territories.
    Release date: 2024-12-11
  • 4. Persistence and graduation indicators of postsecondary students, 2011/2012 to 2021/2022 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012023006
    Description: This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are based on the longitudinal Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data files. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators of public postsecondary students including persistence rates, graduation rates, and average time to graduation by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces, and the three combined Territories.
    Release date: 2023-12-19
  • 5. Persistence and graduation indicators of postsecondary students, 2011/2012 to 2020/2021 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012023001
    Description:

    This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are based on the longitudinal Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data files. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators of public postsecondary students including persistence rates, graduation rates, and average time to graduation by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces, and the three combined Territories.

    Release date: 2023-01-11
  • 6. Persistence and graduation indicators of postsecondary students, 2011/2012 to 2019/2020 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012022003
    Description:

    This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are based on the longitudinal Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data files. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators of public postsecondary students including persistence rates, graduation rates, and average time to graduation by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces, and the three combined Territories.

    Release date: 2022-06-06
  • 7. Overview of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform and Associated Datasets, 2022 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012022004
    Description:

    This technical reference guide (updated to include the 2022 datasets) is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.

    Release date: 2022-06-06
  • 8. Labour market outcomes for college and university graduates, 2010 to 2017 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012021005
    Description: This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and sex for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.
    Release date: 2021-10-21
  • 9. Overview of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) and Associated Datasets Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012021006
    Description:

    This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are derived from integrating Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data with other administrative data on earnings. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators on the labour market outcomes of public postsecondary graduates including median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces and the territories combined.

    Release date: 2021-10-21
  • 10. Persistence and graduation indicators of postsecondary students, 2011/2012 to 2018/2019 Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 37-20-00012021004
    Description:

    This technical reference guide is intended for users of the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). The data for the products associated with this issue are based on the longitudinal Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS) administrative data files. Statistics Canada has derived a series of annual indicators of public postsecondary students including persistence rates, graduation rates, and average time to graduation by educational qualification, field of study, age group and gender for Canada, the provinces, and the three combined Territories.

    Release date: 2021-06-09

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