Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse Standard Reports May 2018 Data Submission Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training May 2018 Data Submission Date: August 1, 2018 Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training Page 1 of 88 Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training (AEST) Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse Standard Reports May 2018 Submission ________________________________________________________ Contents Page Introduction to the Post-Secondary Central Data WarehouseDataPost-Secondary Central the to Introduction 3 Definition of Program ofAreaDefinition 4 Student Headcount Totals by Institution Headcount2016/172013/14Academicto by Year, 5 Headcount2017Novemberon2014to 1st, 6 Headcount by Fiscal Year, 2014/15 to 2017/182014/15to Year, HeadcountFiscal by 7 Student Headcount by Aboriginal Identity Headcount2016/172012/13Academicto by Year, 8 Headcount2017Novemberon2013to 1st, 13 Student Headcount by Age Group Headcount2016/172013/14Academicto by Year, 18 Headcount2017Novemberon2014to 1st, 26 Headcount by Fiscal Year, 2014/15 to 2017/182014/15to Year, HeadcountFiscal by 34 Student Headcount by Gender Headcount2016/172013/14Academicto by Year, 42 Headcount2017Novemberon2014to 1st, 47 Headcount by Fiscal Year, 2014/15 to 2017/182014/15to Year, HeadcountFiscal by 52 Student Headcount by Program Area (BC CIP Clusters) Headcount2016/172013/14Academicto by Year, 57 Headcount2017Novemberon2014to 1st, 65 Headcount by Fiscal Year, 2014/15 to 2017/182014/15to Year, HeadcountFiscal by 73 Credentials Awarded by Credential Type Credentials Awarded,Academic2016/17 Credentials 2013/14Year to 81 Credentials Awarded, Calendar Year 2014 to 2017Awarded,2014toYear Calendar Credentials 85 May2018SubmissionData M inistry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training& AdvancedSkills Education,of Ministry Date: August 1, 2018 August1, Date: Page 2 of 88 Introduction to the Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse,DataPost-Secondary Central Maythe 2018 to Introduction _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse reflects student-level data submitted by 21 of BC's public post-secondary institutions, including colleges, institutes and sevenand institutes colleges, including post-secondaryinstitutions, public BC's of 21submittedbydata WarehouseData Post-Secondary TheCentral student-level reflects universities. University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and University of Northern British Columbia are not included in these reports.these in included not Columbiaare NorthernBritish of University and University SimonFraser Victoria, of University Columbia, British of University universities. The following 5 institutions were granted university status as of September 1, 2008, and their names changed at that time:namesthat changedtheir at andSeptember2008, of 1, as status wereuniversity granted institutions 5 following The -Capilano College became College -Capilano University Capilano -Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design becameDesign+ Art of Institute Carr -Emily Designand Art of University Carr Emily -Kwantlen University College became College -KwantlenUniversity UniversityKwantlen Polytechnic -Malaspina University-College became University-College -Malaspina University Vancouver Island -University College of the Fraser Valley became Valley Fraser the of College -University Valley Fraser the of University . Quality Control Quality Since June 2002, a data quality management plan has been in place to measure and improve the overall quality of data in the Central Data Warehouse. This plan wasrevisedWarehouse.Dataplan Central This the in data of quality measureoverall toimprove andthemanagement place quality beendatain has a 2002,planJune Since in 2013. The ministry acknowledges the effort and co-operation of the public post-secondary institutions for ongoing improvement in the quality of post-secondary of quality ongoingimprovementthe for in post-secondaryinstitutions public the of acknowledgesco-operation effortand ministry Thethe2013. in enrolment and credential data. enrolmentcredential and TimePeriods The standard reports present information for the following time periods:time following the for informationpresent standardreports The AcademicYear AugustSeptember31.to 1: Fiscal Year Fiscal March31.to 1 April : Calendar YearCalendar time). this at only reporting Credentials December in to (used131January : November1stNovember year. ofeachas 1st enrolled students all of countA : A student headcount at Nov. 1 reports the number of students at a single point in time, whereas the other time periods report the number of students over an entire year. entire an overnumberstudents the of report periods timewhereas other the time, in point single a at numberstudentsthe of reports 1 Nov.headcountstudent Aat As a result, institutions that offer more frequent short-term courses (e.g. the Justice Institute of British Columbia) will have a low headcount as at Nov. 1 and muchand1higher Nov. at headcountlowas ahave will Columbia) British of Institute Justice the (e.g. coursesoffermoreshort-term frequent that institutions result, a As numbers over a year.numbersa over OffshoreStudents Some BC institutions deliver programs in other countries. Non-Canadians with no visa status studying outside Canada at offshore campuses or via the Internet are notare Internet theoffshore Canadacampuses atoutside via studying or status Non-Canadiansvisa no with countries. other programs in deliver Someinstitutions BC included in headcount or credential reports. credential headcountor in included UniqueHeadcount In any given year, some students attend more than one institution. Since these students are included in the headcount of each institution they attend, the sum of all sum ofthe attend, they institution eachheadcount ofthe in included are studentsthese Since somemoreinstitution. oneattendthanstudents year, given any In institutions' headcounts will include some students more than once, producing an over-stated total headcount. In the unique headcount, students who are identified asidentifiedwhostudentsheadcount, uniqueare the In headcount. total over-stated anproducingsome more once,students thaninclude headcountswill institutions' attending more than one institution are only counted once. This number represents the number of students served by the participating institutions as a whole.a as institutions participating the bynumberserved students the This representsof countedonce. only are moreinstitution oneattendingthan Masking Each number or total greater than 0 but less than five has been masked with an *; all other numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5; all values of 0 are representedbyare 0 of values all 5; numbersnearest otherthe beenroundedhave to all beenmasked*; hasfivethanan with less but 0 than greater numberEachtotal or blank cells. The effects of rounding may result in totals in different reports not matching exactly when they would be expected to match.whentoexpected wouldbematching they exactly not reports different in totals in mayrounding result effectsofThe cells. blank For more information about the standard reports, please contact Dean Klompas, Team Lead, Central Data WarehouseDataDeanKlompas, [email protected] pleaseatLead, standardreports, themoreabout informationFor May2018SubmissionData M inistry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training& AdvancedSkills Education,of Ministry Date: August 1, 2018 August1, Date: Page 3 of 88 Definition of Program ofAreaDefinition _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Student Headcount by Program Area table groups programs by first coding each program according to the national Classification of Instructional Programs Instructional of Classification national the programeachto StudentHeadcountcodingThe accordinggroupsprograms Programfirst by bytable Area (CIP) taxonomy and then categorizing the 2-digit CIP codes. The Program Area calculation has been modified since the October 2012 submission to re-assignOctober2012submissionbeenmodifiedto thehas since ProgramThe calculation Areacodes. CIP 2-digit the taxonomy categorizing thenand(CIP) the instructional activity of programs reported with a CIP code of 89.9992 or 99.9999 using information on course content. For example, a student with nowithstudent aexample, For content. courseon information 99.9999 using89.9992 or of code CIP programsa with reportedof activity instructional the declared program (CIP 99.9999) taking a business course will be reported under the Business and Management program area. This results in a redistribution of redistribution a ManagementandBusinessin theunder reportedresults be This programwill area. coursebusiness a taking99.9999) program declared (CIP headcount from the Personal Improvement and Leisure (89.9992) and Other (99.9999) program areas to other program areas. This modification relies on modificationrelies This program other areas. program(99.9999)Improvementto Otherand Personalheadcountareas(89.9992) thefrom Leisure and correct CIP coding of courses and is a work in progress for some institutions, so future reports will continue to show a further redistribution.The resulting redistribution.The showfurther ato continue will reports future so someinstitutions, for progress workin a is andcourses of coding CIP correct Program Area Categories (CIP Clusters) include the following fields of study: of fields following the include Clusters) Program(CIP CategoriesArea Program