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    Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics

    A Profile of Minority-Language Students and Schools in Canada: Results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2009

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    The following acronyms are used in this publication:

    CEGEP - Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel
    OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
    PISA - Programme for International Student Assessment
    PSE - Post-secondary education
    SVOLM - Survey on the Vitality of Official Language Minorities
    YITS - Youth in Transition Survey

    Acronyms for indexed variables

    ABGROUP - variable label for index of ability grouping between classes
    ATSCHL - variable label for index of attitude towards school
    CULT POSS - variable label for index of cultural possessions
    ENJOY - variable label for index of enjoyment of reading
    FAMSTRUC - variable label for index of family structure
    HEDRES - variable label for index of home educational resources
    HISEl -     variable label for highest occupational status of parents
    HOMEPOS - variable label for index of home possessions
    IMMIG - variable label for index on immigrant background
    IRATCOMP - variable label for index of computer availability
    ISCED - the International Standard Classification for Education
    PARED - variable label for highest educational level of parents in years of education according to ISCED
    RESPCURR - variable label for index of school responsibility for curriculum and assessment
    RESPRES - variable label for index of school responsibility for resource allocation
    SCES - variable label for social, cultural and economic status
    SCMATEDU - variable label for index on the school's educational resources
    STIMREAD - variable label for index of teachers' stimulation of students' reading engagement
    STUDBEHA - variable label for index of student-related factors affecting school climates
    STUDREL - variable label for index of teacher-student relations
    WEALTH - variable label for index of family wealth

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