Education Indicators in Canada: Handbook for the Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program March 2023
Acronyms and abbreviations

ASETS – Access and Support to Education and Training Survey
AUS - Australia
AUT – Austria
BEL – Flanders (Belgium)
BHASE - business, humanities, health, arts, social science, and education fields
BTSD – Basic training for skill development
CANSIM – Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System
CAUBO – Canadian Association of University Business Officers
CCSIS – Community College Student Information System
CEGEP – Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel
CCES – Canadian Centre for Education Statistics
CESC – Canadian Education Statistics Council
CFI – Canada Foundation for Innovation
CHL – Chile
CIHR – Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CIP – Classification of Instructional Programs
CMA – Census metropolitan area
CMEC – Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
CPI – Consumer Price Index
CV – coefficient of variation
CZE – Czech Republic
DEU – Germany
DNK – Denmark
EAG – Education at a Glance
ELMLP – Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform
ENG - England (UK)
ESDC – Employment and Social Development Canada
ESES – Elementary-Secondary Education Survey (formerly ESESP - Elementary-Secondary Education Statistics Project)
ESP – Spain
EST – Estonia
FEDEX – Survey of Federal Government Expenditures in Support of Education
FIN - Finland
FINCOL – Financial Statistics of Community Colleges and Vocational Schools
FINESS – Financial Information of Elementary and Secondary Schools
FINUNI – Financial Information of Universities Survey
FOG – Follow-up Survey of Graduates
FRA - France
FTE – Full-time equivalent
GBR – England (UK)
GBR-NIR – Northern Ireland (UK)
GDP – Gross domestic product
GED – General education diploma
GERD – Gross domestic expenditures on research and development
GRC – Greece
HRSDC – Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
IALSS – International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey
ICT – information and communication technologies
IDN-JAK – Jakarta (Indonesia)
IEA – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
ILO – International Labour Organization
INAC – Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
INES – Indicators of Educational Systems
IRL – Ireland
ISCED – International Standard Classification of Education
ISR – Israel
ITA - Italy
JPN – Japan
JRT – Job readiness training
KOR - Korea
LFS – Labour Force Survey
LICO – Low-income cutoff
LTU – Lithuania
NDL - Northern Distance Learning
NDM – New Dissemination Model
NEET – not in employment, not in education (or training)
NGS – National Graduates Survey
NHS – National Household Survey
NLD – Netherlands
NLSCY – National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
NOR - Norway
NSERC – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
NZL – New Zealand
OAC – Ontario Academic Credits
OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PCAP – Pan-Canadian Assessment Program
PCEIP – Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program
PIAAC – Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
PIRLS – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
PISA – Programme for International Student Assessment
POL – Poland
PPPs – purchasing power parities
PPVT-R – Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised
PSIS – Postsecondary Student Information System
PS-TRE – problem solving in technology-rich environments
R&D – Research and development
RAIS – Registered Apprenticeship Information System
RUS – Russian Federation
SAIP – School Achievement Indicators Program
SCF – Survey of Consumer Finances
SCI – Survey of Colleges and Institutes
SDG – Sustainable Development Goal
SGP – Singapore
SHS – Survey of Household Spending
SLID – Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
SSGS – Secondary School Graduates Survey
SSHRC – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
STEM - Science, technology, engineering, and math and computer science fields
SVK – Slovak Republic
SVN – Slovenia
SWE - Sweden
TALIS – Teaching and Learning International Survey
TLAC – Tuition and Living Accommodation Costs for Full-time Students at Canadian Degree-granting Institutions
TUR – Turkey
UCASS – University and College Academic Staff System
UKM – United Kingdom
UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UOE – UNESCO/OECD/Eurostat data collection
USA – United States
USIS - University Student Information System
YITS – Youth in Transition Survey