Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
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Education Data Centre
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Description area
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History
The Education Data Centre of the Department of Education was established in 1965 as part of the School Business and Finance Branch. It assumed the staff and functions of the former Statistical Services Division of the Special Services Branch. By 1967 the Education Data Centre was a separate branch and in April, 1968, the Education Data Centre and the Regional Data Processing Centre (from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) were merged to form the Education Data Processing Branch.
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Education Data Centre provided Ontario's Department of Education with data processing services and developed various computer systems. The Education Data Centre also provided statistical services for the Department of Education and school system for planning purposes and data processing services to the Ontario Teachers' Superannuation Commission.
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Inventory of the Ministry of Education
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Gorton