Welcome to EPRI

The Education Policy Research Initiative (EPRI) is a national research organization based at the University of Ottawa since 2007. EPRI engages in research aimed at informing policy discussions focused on education, skills and the labour market.

As of July 2021, after collaborating on multiple projects for over a year, the EPRI team joined the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC). SRDC is a well established and highly respected non-profit research organization created specifically to develop, field test, and rigorously evaluate new programs while also undertaking research using existing data sources in order to inform policy across a range of areas—including those related to EPRI’s historical mission.

Recent EPRI Highlights

How Much Do They Make? New Evidence on the Early Career Earnings of Trade Certificate Holders

Continuing the partnership with the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC), the Education Policy Research Initiative (EPRI), has used Statistics Canada’s Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) to examine the early labour market outcomes of trade certificate holders over the period from 2009 through 2016.

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How Much do They Make? Earnings of Post-Secondary Education Graduates

The Education Policy Research Initiative (EPRI), in partnership with the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC), has leveraged Statistics Canada’s new Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) to provide new and unique information on post-secondary education (PSE) graduates’ early labour market outcomes over the period 2011 through 2015. This project builds on the success of the earlier Barista or Better project by providing an analysis that is comprehensive in scope, including all graduates from all publicly funded PSE institutions across the country and covering 6 major credentials, ranging from college-level certificates to advanced university degrees, as well as by 11 fields of study within each credential. Furthermore, a companion interactive dashboard allows users to explore earnings patterns across all credentials and fields of study according to their own interests and needs.

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CPP Special Issue - Information and Communications Technologies Talent: The Skills We Need

In November 2018 EPRI's directors edited a special issue of Canadian Public Policy examining the issues surrounding skills shortages in Canada's Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector. This special issue follows a workshop on ICT skills hosted by EPRI at the University of Ottawa and brings together papers from a variety of ICT stakeholders.

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Results of the "Barista or Better?" EPRI-ESDC Tax Linkage Project

The "Barista or Better?" EPRI-ESDC Tax Linkage project uses administrative data on students provided by 14 PSE institutions from four Canadian provinces linked to tax records held at Statistics Canada to track the labour market outcomes of Canadian college (diploma) and university (bachelor’s) graduates from 2005 through 2013. What emerges is a unique and powerful portrait of their labour market outcomes.

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