The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of health Research (CIHR), has a requirement to conduct a pilot study to permit a more accurate and complete picture of post-graduate award recipients than is currently available by using administrative data provided by post-secondary education (PSE) institutions. The first phase of the pilot study has been completed. The second phase will involve an extended analysis of data obtained in Phase I, as well as linkage and analysis of Statistics Canada data:
Phase II – Discontinuity Analysis of PSE data and analysis of Statistics Canada data
Establish agreements with four post-secondary institutions for a matching exercise of institutional data.
Conduct analysis of educational outcomes for an additional nine years of administrative data
Conduct discontinuity analysis of educational outcomes
Establish agreement with Statistics Canada for access to micro data.
Data assessment of Statistics Canada data – cleaning and validation of data fields
Link post-secondary institutional administrative data to Statistics Canada data;
Analyze data to describe how award recipients perform in the labour market compared to the overall population; for example: post-graduation earnings and other labour market outcomes.
Prepare a report summarizing findings, including technical appendices containing tables and graphs broken out by, for example, award type, degree, discipline grouping and sector.
