Project type: DI Program Government project
Status: Open
Ministry of Education and Child Care
The Ministry of Education is undertaking a research project using administrative data to help in developing a census-based indicator of the current wellbeing and vulnerabilities of BC’s kindergarten student cohorts year by year. The ministry has been using data available through its Education Data Warehouse to build a baseline Kindergarten Index. Measures such as student demographic information, neighbourhood-level census data, as well as student EDI scores, Early Learning/Strong Start data, and student report card information have been integrated as predictors of various outcomes. Through the Data Innovation Program, external data sources will be linked to this data to see if the predictive accuracy of these indices can be improved upon.
Project main contact: Brett Wilmer, Director, Education Economics Branch, Ministry of Education
Linked data sets:
- Ministry of Attorney General
- Ministry of Children and Family Development
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
- Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
- Statistics Canada
