Education Indicators in Canada: Handbook for the Report of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program March 2024
Acronyms and abbreviations
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- 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
- Türkiye
- 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
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