Gender Results Framework
Education and skills development

The Gender Results Framework (GRF) helps measure progress toward gender equality in Canada. This page focuses on Education and skills development, enabling users to explore selected GRF indicators and examine how outcomes vary by gender and other sociodemographic characteristics.

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Additional information

Balancing confidentiality and gender data dissemination

To maintain the balance between disseminating as much gender-based data as possible and preserving confidentiality, some information from the 2021 Census is released at higher levels of geography using a three-category gender variable with the following categories:

men (cisgender and transgender)
women (cisgender and transgender)
non-binary persons.

Or using a five-category classification of cisgender, transgender and non-binary populations. This is a derived variable that uses both three-category gender and sex at birth:

cisgender men
cisgender women
transgender men
transgender women
non-binary persons.

Given that the non-binary population is small, when necessary, a statistical method producing a two-category gender variable is applied to prevent disclosure of identifiable data for lower levels of geography.

Consequently, in these cases, information will be disseminated using the following categories:

men+
women+.

Individuals in the "non-binary persons" category are distributed in the other two gender categories and are denoted by the "+" symbol.

Additional information on gender-based data:

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Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and Business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education (BHASE) groupings
- The Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) category includes fields of study in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- The Business, humanities, health, arts, social science and education (BHASE) category includes fields of study in business, humanities, health, arts, social science, education, legal studies, trades, services, natural resources and conservation.