The Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC) governs the Canadian Education Statistics Program, a joint initiative of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) and Statistics Canada, established under a Protocol originally developed in 1989.

CESC's objectives

•  to improve the determiniation and analysis of those statistics  recognized as being descriptive of education and training in Canada
  
  
•  to improve the timeliness, quality and interjurisdictional comparibility
   of pan-Canadian education data collected and analysed
  
  
•  to ensure broad access with due regard for the protection of personal
   privacy to relevant pan-Canadian education statistical information
  
  
•  to meet the increasing need within Canada to respond with relevant
   statistics to public policy issues in education
  
  
•  to maintain a core of statistical information on education in Canada
   to be made up of regularly updated statistical elements in the areas
   of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education and training
  
  
•  to create pan-Canadian statistical information on education that will
   assist in the effective, efficient and economical management of
   institutions, systems and government agencies representative of
   education and  training
  
  
•  to provide information for the study of issues in education, and
  
  
•  to establish a mechanism for cooperation and collaboration between
   Statistics Canada and CMEC on behalf of the provinces and territories.