The Elementary-Secondary Education Survey is a national survey that enables Statistics Canada to provide information on enrolments (including minority and second language programs), graduates, educators and finance of Canadian elementary-secondary public educational institutions. This information is used mainly to meet policy and planning needs in the field of elementary-secondary education.
The Elementary-Secondary Education Statistics Project (ESESP, now renamed) started as a pilot project that was first introduced by Statistics Canada (STC) in 2003. The survey content originates from three (3) tables which were originally part of a survey that was sent out each year to all provinces and territories by the British Columbia Ministry of Education. Following formal consultation with all provinces, territories and data users, seven (7) new tables were introduced by Statistics Canada to collect additional data. The goal of this project is to collect elementary/secondary expenditure data and to replace several surveys which were used for the collection of enrolment, graduate, and educator data. These included the former Elementary-Secondary School Enrolment Survey, the Secondary School Graduate Survey, the Elementary-Secondary Education Staff Survey and the Principal's Statistical Report as the official collection tools for elementary-secondary enrolments, graduates, and staff data. Although this project collects expenditure data, the Survey of Uniform Financial System - School Boards survey remains active. The main objectives we are hoping to achieve with this collection tool are to produce relevant, comparable and timely statistics and to reduce the respondent burden on educational organisations and school principals.
The following files are available for use within the constraints of the DLI licence to UNB Libraries authorized users.
- Request files Elementary-Secondary Education Survey (Excel tables)
- Enrolments by Type of Program, Age and Sex, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2002/2003 to 2009/2010
- Enrolments by Type of Program, Grade and Sex, School Boards and Districts, 1997/1998 to 2009/2010 - Public schools, elementary-secondary level
- Enrolments by Type of Minority and Second Language Programs, Youth Sector by Grade, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 1997/98 to 2009/10 - Public schools, elementary-secondary level
- Enrolments by type of Aboriginal Language Programs by Grade, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2001/2002 to 2009/2010
- Enrolments in Special Needs Education1 by Type of Disablity, Type of Class, School Boards and Districts (Headcount), 2001/2002 to 2009/2010
- Expenditures, 1997/1998 to 2006/2007
- Number of Full-time and Part-time Educators in Elementary and secondary public schools, by Age Group and Sex, 1997/1998 to 2009/2010
- Number of Graduates1 by Type of Programs, Age and Sex, School Boards and Districts, 2002/2003 to 2009/2010 - Public schools, elementary-secondary level