Question
I am looking for primary-secondary student enrollment in Quebec at the regional or school board level. I first thought that ESES would provide those numbers as one table is called “Enrolments by Type of Program, Age and Sex, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2002/2003 to 2009/2010” . But looking at the table (and the other ESES tables) I could only find data aggregated at the provincial level. Is the school board data available as a custom tab? Is it possible to get information on "School Boards and Districts"?
Answer
The data tables can be accessed from CANSIM(free-online)as per the link below from the Elementary-Secondary Education Survey (ESES)which are aggregated at the provincial level and not at the school board level. We do not produce custom tabulation from the ESES.http://cansim2.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-win/cnsmcgi.exeLANG=e&ResultTemplate =CII &CORCMD=GETEXT&CORTYP=1&CORRELTYP=4&CORID=5102
Yes, that is correct. The following is taken from the IMDB under disclosure control: http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.plFunction=getSurvey&SDDS=5102&lang=en&db=imdb&adm=8&dis=2#a4
Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any data which would divulge information obtained under the Statistics Act that relates to any identifiable person, business or organization without the prior knowledge or the consent in writing of that person, business or organization. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.
The data is aggregated by province and territory. The tables are evaluated in accordance with Statistics Canada's policies on confidentiality.
In regard to client requests for cross-classified data, Statistics Canada does not supply any tables that could identify a student, graduate or educator. As a guideline, a cell with a count of less than five (5) is suppressed, and in order to avoid residual disclosure, other cells are also chosen for suppression.
