TRAIN uses the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes to classify vocational skills and programs in TRAIN. The Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes is a system used by secondary, postsecondary, and adult education institutions to categorize education programs and courses. The codes used in TRAIN are from the 1990 revision of the Department of Education's standard educational program classification system. Some codes used in TRAIN are not from the standard CIP code listing; these have been added by TRAIN staff to facilitate coding and to represent programs that do not fall easily into categories used by the Department of Education.

For more information about the Classification of Instructional Programs, please see the links below.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released the updated Classification of Instructional Programs in July 1991.   NCES is a division of the US Department of Education that tracks statistics on education throughout the United States.

The official description of the Classification of Instructional programs can be found here.  NCES also has publication info available, which includes information on how to obtain a hard-copy of the manual, and who to contact at NCES for further information.

There are serveral versions of the Classification of Instructional Programs available online.

• There is a web-based version, which includes descriptions of all the codes, and can be easily accessed using your web-browser.
  

• NCES has a .PDF format version available, that can be downloaded from their publication info page. (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required; information on viewing PDF documents is available from this page as well.)