Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

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The Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings is used for the presentation, summary, analysis, and dissemination of highly aggregated data when the Primary groupings variant is too detailed at the second level for smaller geographic areas and is an update of the Variant of CIP 2016 - Alternative primary groupings.

The variant has the same 13 'primary groupings' as the Primary groupings variant at the first level which are a convenient and useful basis for summarizing and analyzing more detailed classes.

The second level is comprised of the 50 CIP 2021 series. Each series belongs in only one primary grouping, except for series 30. Multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary studies. Series 30. has been split into its constituent four-digit subseries, and each of the subseries has been grouped with its closest equivalent series by field of study.

In order to facilitate the dissemination of information at smaller geographies, the variant collapses the 100 subgroupings of the Primary groupings variant at the second level into 59 subgroupings. Each of the collapsed categories at the second level in the Alternative primary groupings variant has an explanatory footnote stating which of the CIP 2021 series 30. Multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary subseries it includes.