Variant of CIP 2016 - STEM and BHASE groupings

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This variant can be used to analyse and compare the fields of study individually within STEM and BHASE groupings. It can also be used to compare education and labour market outcomes between STEM and BHASE fields of study. The STEM fields of study include science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The BHASE fields of study encompass business, humanities, health, arts, social science, education, as well as legal studies, trades, services, natural resources and conservation. The groupings in the variant are based on field of study, and are independent of level of study.

The first level of the variant consists of two groupings, STEM and BHASE fields of study. At the second level, the STEM grouping is disaggregated into three sub-groupings, and the BHASE grouping is disaggregated into seven sub-groupings. At the third level, the STEM grouping is further broken out into seven categories, and the BHASE grouping is further broken out into eighteen categories. The fourth level of the variant consists of the CIP 2016 instructional program classes.

With the removal of the 2011 variant's 'Technology, except engineering technology' sub-grouping, fields of study in this category were redistributed among the three 2016 STEM sub-groupings 'Science and science technology,' 'Engineering and engineering technology,' and 'Mathematics and computer and information science'. Another change in the 2016 variant is the introduction of sub-groupings within the BHASE grouping. Lastly, additional modifications made are:

1. 01.1002 Food technology and processing, from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

2. 01.1099 Food science and technology, other from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

3. 03.0509 Wood science and wood products/pulp and paper technology from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

4. 04.0902 Architectural and building sciences/technology (BArch, BA, BS, BSc, MArch, MA, MS, MSc, PhD) from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.2 of 2016

5. 13.0501 Educational/instructional technology from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.3 of 2016

6. 29.0501 Military technologies and applied sciences from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.2 of 2016

7. 30.06 Systems science and theory from STEM a.1 of 2011 to STEM a.3 of 2016

8. 30.3001 Computational science from STEM a.1 of 2011 to STEM a.3 of 2016

9. 41 Science technologies/technicians from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

10. 42.2701 Cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics from BHASE b. of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

11. 43.0106 Forensic science and technology from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

12. 43.0204 Fire systems technology from STEM a.2 of 2011 to BHASE b.7 of 2016

13. 45.0702 Geographic information science and cartography from STEM a.2 of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

14. 51.0503 Oral biology and oral and maxillofacial pathology (MS, MSc, PhD) from BHASE b. of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

15. 51.0505 Dental materials (MS, MSc, PhD) from BHASE b. of 2011 to STEM a.1 of 2016

16. 52.1301 Management science from BHASE b of 2011 to STEM a.3 of 2016

17. 52.1399 Management sciences and quantitative methods, other from BHASE b. of 2011 to STEM a.3 of 2016