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Category: Data

Statistics Canada and the Two Types of Data

People often berate Statistics Canada when it comes to producing data on education in Canada. And not entirely without reason: there are some statistics that Canadians seem to be especially bad at producing. But it’s also worth noting that there are other kinds of data that Statscan is extraordinarily good at capturing – data that researchers in other countries would kill to have. When it comes to research, there are broadly two types of data. The first is factual, aggregate

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February 23, 2012 No Comments

Senior Management Salaries and Titles

A couple of weeks ago we had a fun look at academic salaries. And I know some of you were thinking: “Why pick on profs? What about skyrocketing administrative salaries?” Fair enough – let’s look at what happened to administrative pay in the last decade. To stay consistent with earlier data on professors’ salaries, I use 2001 and 2009 as reference years. This being a free email, I stick to easily-accessible, cost-free data – namely, salary disclosure information from the

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January 30, 2012 1 Comment

Graduate Surveys We’d Like to See

If there’s one type of Canadian educational survey where complete and utter stasis has set in, it’s graduate surveys. Questions like “are you employed,” “what are your earnings,” and “were you satisfied with your education” aren’t just boring, I think they’re actively making us stupider. There seems to be a general view that because the answers to these questions don’t change very much from year to year, that we’re doing as good a job as we ever have. But labour

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January 20, 2012 2 Comments

No More Boring Surveys

As most of you probably know, we at HESA spend a lot of our time working on surveys. While doing so, we see a lot of different types of survey instruments, especially from governments and institutions. And we’ve come to a major conclusion: Most of them are really boring. There was a time – say fifteen years ago– when doing surveys of applicants, graduates and alumni was relatively rare. There weren’t any surveys of satisfaction, or engagement, or anything else,

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January 16, 2012 No Comments

Comparative Salary Data – Canada vs. U.S.

Yesterday, we looked at trends in Canadian faculty salary data. But how does our compensation stack up again the United States? Here, I take 2009-10 U.S. salary data for professors at four-year institutions from the AAUP’s Report on the Status of the Academic Profession. For Canada, I use the same data as yesterday but add professors in medical fields. I do not adjust for currency since the dollar is roughly at par. The comparison looks like this: Canada vs. U.S.

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January 11, 2012 1 Comment

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