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Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:09:14 -0300
From: Wendy Robbins <
[hidden email]>
Subject: Faculty data being disappeared in cuts to Statcan
In order to track the pace of progress (glacial or otherwise) in the
demographics of the university and college faculty body across Canada,
we need data year by year. Some of you may be familiar with the annual
"Ivory Towers: Feminist and Equity Audits" that I and others have been
producing over the past decade.
<
http://www.fedcan.ca/content/en/333/ivory-towers.html> Like so many
researchers, we depend on data from Statistics Canada, often then
assembled in useful ways by CAUT and other organizations for
negotiating salary scales in collective agreements, etc. With women
well over half the university students in Canada but barely over a
fifth of full professors, we still have a long way to go.
Cuts to Statcan mean cuts to a key source of faculty data .... read on.
Thanks to Bill Schipper at Memorial for alerting me to this latest
step backwards.
Yours,
Wendy Robbins
[hidden email]
Statistics Canada discontinues key source of Canadian faculty data
See:
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/statistics-canada-discontinues-key-source-of-canadian-faculty-data
Posted on 3 May 2012 by leo charbonneau
I received Statistics Canada’s Daily bulletin this morning, which
included data on “salaries and salary scales of full-time teaching
staff at Canadian universities, 2010/2011.” The release refers to
“final” data, as opposed to “preliminary” data, which was released
back in August 2011. However, in this instance, the data really is
final as Statistics Canada also announced in this morning’s bulletin
that it has discontinued the University and College Academic Staff
System, or UCASS, from which the salary data is derived.
This is very disturbing news because UCASS kept track of much more
than just faculty salaries. The annual survey collected more than 20
data points that gave governments, higher education institutions and
policy analysts an intimate portrait of full-time faculty members in
Canada. Among the data collected included gender, age, department,
principal subject taught, salary and administrative stipends,
sabbatical leave, unpaid leave, province or country of degrees earned,
citizenship, and on and on (see the UCASS manual for survey
respondents here). Much of the faculty chapter in Trends in Higher
Education, published by the Association of Universities and Colleges
of Canada, is derived from UCASS data. [cut]
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Tracey P. Lauriault
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