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Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS)
Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS)
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Lightcast’s source for enrollments and completions data for higher education institutions in Canada. PSIS’ reference period begins the day after the end of the institution’s previous winter term (usually in April, May, or June), and goes through the last day of the winter term of the following year.

PSIS aims to collect information from “Canadian public postsecondary institutions (universities, community colleges and trade and vocational training centres).” PSIS is a mandatory survey. According to PSIS, the response rate was 94.4% in 2016/2017.

Source: PSIS.

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