ACAT Student Mobility Reports: Step-by-Step Guide
Sector Student Enrolment Flow
• Welcome to one of the step-by-step user guides for the Alberta Council
on Admissions and Transfer’s (ACAT’s) first three new Student Mobility
Reports!
• The new reports contain information regarding student enrolment flow
and tracking for public post-secondary institutions and the six sectors
in Alberta.
• These reports use Learner and Enrolment Reporting System (LERS)
system data, which has been signed off by public post-secondary
institutions, supporting easy access to existing data. LERS system
data includes data regarding all approved programs reported in
LERS by publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Alberta’s
six sectors.
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• The first three new mobility reports are:
o Institution and Sector Student Enrolment Flow reports, which
provide student enrolment flows into, within, and out of Alberta’s
public post-secondary institutions and six sectors for a given
academic year. These reports target the most recent, complete
LERS system data set available (inflow to and outflow from the
2010/2011 cohort year).
o A Student Yearly Enrolment Track by Post-Secondary Institution
report, which provides tracking of student enrolment in public postsecondary institutions by academic year. This report looks back six
years from the most current, valid LERS data available for a student
cohort (2011/2012 cohort year).
• Report updates will occur on a yearly basis as new LERS data is
available and will maintain consistent templates.
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• This PowerPoint will now provide a brief step-by-step user
guide to walk you through the Sector Student Enrolment Flow
report.
• Please note that to provide the following illustrative examples
regarding the contents of this report, this presentation uses
examples of real Comprehensive Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI) sector information, which is available on
ACAT’s website alongside the reports for all six Campus
Alberta post-secondary sectors.
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Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
The following slides walk you through the information in the Sector Student Enrolment Flow
mobility report using CARI information as an illustrative example. The example focuses on the
2010-11 cohort year (“D”) and the inflow into CARI before and the outflow from CARI after this
cohort year. The legend and notes on the next slide further describe the contents of A–H.
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Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
Note the dates and descriptions for the report information for A–H identified in the
“Legend”. Important report details are also provided in the “Notes” at the bottom of
each page of the report, including the page 1 example, below.
Legend:
Notes:
1. Values listed in the diagram represent the number of Unique Students at the level you are
looking at; therefore, adding up sector numbers in each category may lead to inflated value.
2. Please refer to the “Student Enrolment Flow by Post-Secondary Institution” tab/page for the
complete names of each sector (i.e. CARI, BASI, etc) and for the enrolment for individual
post-secondary institutions that make up each sector.
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Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
D. Identifies
that in 2010-11,
there were
121,182
students
enrolled within
the CARI
sector.
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Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
A. RETURNING:
Identifies students
who were enrolled at
some point between
2004-05 through
2008-09
E. CONTINUING
ON:
Identifies students
who were enrolled
in 2011-12
B. CONTINUING:
Identifies students
who were enrolled in
2009-10
C. NEW:
Identifies students who
were not enrolled
between 2004-05 and
2009-10
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G. NOT IN
SYSTEM:
Identifies
students who
did not have
an enrolment
record in the
system for
2011-12
Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
A., B., and C. illustrate the
descriptions on the
previous slide regarding
the number of students for
returning, continuing, and
new student enrolment.
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Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
E. Identifies students who were enrolled in a public
institution for the following year (2011-2012)
F. Identifies the number of these students who
received a credential from the CARI sector in 2010-2011.
G. Identifies students who were NOT enrolled at a public institution in the
following year (2011-2012)
H. Identifies the number of these students who received a credential from
the CARI sector in 2010-2011.
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Comprehensive
Academic and Research
Institutions (CARI)
2010-11
A, B, and E in the Sector Student Enrolment Flow report identify enrolment for returning and
continuing students in the six sectors who are flowing into and out of a sector (e.g., CARI). This
information is also broken down by public post-secondary institution for this sector on page 2 of
the report (see next slide for an example of the breakdown by institution).
Legend:
Notes:
1. Values listed in the diagram represent the number of Unique Students at the level you are looking
at; therefore, adding up sector numbers in each category may lead to inflated value.
2. Please refer to the “Student Enrolment Flow by Post-Secondary Institution” tab/page for the
complete names of each sector (i.e. CARI, BASI, etc) and for the enrolment or individual postsecondary institutions that make up each sector.
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Comprehensive Academic
and Research Institutions
(CARI) 2010-11
Student Cohort: 121,182
Page 2 of this report provides a breakdown of sector student enrolment data by public post-secondary
institution(s) for a given academic year and student movement into, within and out of the institution(s).
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• For additional information about the student
mobility reports or to provide feedback, please
contact Eric Dohei at (780) 644 – 3185 or
[email protected].
• System feedback about the three new mobility
reports is encouraged to inform future revisions
and new phases of mobility reports currently being
discussed.
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