Postsecondary Student Information System (PSIS)

Population group of person, category

Population group refers to whether the person reports being White, South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, Arab, Latin American, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean, Japanese and/or another population group. These specific groups are the mark-in categories used in a question which collects data on the visible minority population for employment equity purposes.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Population group