Subset of Statistics Canada median employment income for postsecondary graduates
Source:R/epipredict-data.R
grad_employ_subset.RdData set for all territories (aggregated) and all 10 provinces containing yearly income data for postsecondary graduates as reported by Statistics Canada, downloaded from the Statistics Canada website at www.statcan.gc.ca. This example data is a snapshot as of September 18, 2024, and ranges from 2010 to 2017 (yearly).
Format
An epiprocess::epi_df (object of class c("epi_df", "tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame")) with 1445 rows and 7 columns.
Source
This object contains modified data adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 37-10-0115-01 Characteristics and median employment income of longitudinal cohorts of postsecondary graduates two and five years after graduation, by educational qualification and field of study (primary groupings). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
The data is licensed under the terms of the Statistics Canada Open License.
Modifications:
Only provincial and territorial regions are kept.
Only age group, field of study, and educational qualification are kept as covariates. For the remaining covariates, we keep aggregated values and drop the level-specific rows.
No modifications were made to the time range of the data.
Data dictionary
The data has columns:
- geo_value
The province in Canada associated with each row of measurements.
- time_value
The time value, a year integer in YYYY format
- edu_qual
The education qualification
- age_group
The age group; either 15 to 34 or 35 to 64
- num_graduates
The number of graduates for the given row of characteristics
- med_income_2y
The median employment income two years after graduation
- med_income_5y
The median employment income five years after graduation