- | Early childhood education and care worker cluster | 444715 |
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1 | Paid employment indicator | 314813 | Boolean
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| DSS specific information: 'Yes' includes early childhood education and care workers who receive wages or salary. They can include contract workers or relief workers. 'No' includes workers who are not paid, but who may be receiving in-kind benefits in recognition or exchange for their work. Unpaid staff may include volunteers, unpaid work trainees, parents and family members and students on work experience. In-kind benefits such as free child care or the reimbursement of work-related expenses in full or part (for example, token payments or small gifts such as t-shirts) are not regarded as payment of salary, and people who receive these are considered to be unpaid workers.
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2 | Type of work activity | 441555 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Primary contact | 2 | Other contact | 3 | Management/administration | 4 | Other work | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| Conditional obligation: Conditional on responding '1 Yes' to whether the person is in paid employment. |
3 | Role of early childhood education and care worker | 441583 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Principal/director/coordinator/teacher-in-charge | 2 | Group leader/teacher | 3 | Assistant/aide | 4 | Other contact worker | 5 | Non contact worker |
| Conditional obligation: Conditional on responding '1 Yes' to whether the person is in paid employment.
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4 | Field of highest qualification relevant to early childhood education and care | 441592 | Number
[2]
| 1 | Teaching (early childhood related) | 2 | Teaching (primary) | 3 | Teaching (other) | 4 | Child Care | 5 | Nursing | 8 | Other early childhood related | 97 | Not applicable (No qualification/No ECEC related qualification) | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| Conditional obligation: Conditional on being a paid early childhood education and care contact worker. |
5 | Level of highest qualification relevant to early childhood education and care | 441594 | Number
[2]
| 1 | Postgraduate degree | 2 | Graduate diploma or graduate certificate level | 3 | Bachelor degree (honours) | 4 | Bachelor degree pass (4 years or equivalent) | 5 | Bachelor degree pass (3 years or equivalent) | 6 | Advanced diploma | 7 | Diploma | 8 | Certificate level 3 or 4 | 9 | Certificate level 1 or 2 | 10 | Other certificate | 97 | Not applicable (no qualification in early education and care related field) | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| Conditional obligation: Conditional on being a paid early childhood education and care contact worker.
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6 | Delivery of preschool program indicator | 441674 | Boolean
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| Conditional obligation: Conditional on being a paid early childhood education and care contact worker.
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7 | Hours worked in preschool program delivery | 437558 | String
[3]
| 999 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| Conditional obligation: Conditional on being a paid early childhood education and care contact worker who delivered a preschool program. |
- | Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) cluster 2010 | 436197 |
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- | Postcode—Australian (person) | 287224 | Number
[4]
| {NNNN} The Postcode datafile code set representing Australian postcodes as defined by Australia Post. | Conditional obligation: Only collected for unit record level collection for Early Childhood Education and Care |
- | Area of usual residence (CD) | 413233 | Number
[7]
| NNNNNNN The ASGC (2010) code set representing geographical location at the collection district (CD) level. | Conditional obligation: Only collected for unit record level collection for Early Childhood Education and Care |
- | Postcode—Australian (service provider organisation) | 290064 | Number
[4]
| {NNNN} The Postcode datafile code set representing Australian postcodes as defined by Australia Post. | |
- | Geographic location of organisation (CD) | 413119 | Number
[7]
| NNNNNNN The ASGC (2010) code set representing geographical location at the collection district (CD) level. | |
- | Maximum preschool program hours available (Child) | 436113 | Number
[2]
| N[N] Total number of hours. | |
- | Preschool program attendance indicator | 436120 | Boolean
[1]
| | DSS specific information: Attendance in a preschool program should be reported for the specified reference period. Record 'Yes' if the child attended a preschool program for at least one hour during the reference period. Record 'No' if the child did not attend a preschool program during the reference period due to illness or extended holiday leave. |
- | Preschool program enrolment indicator | 436126 | Boolean
[1]
| | DSS specific information: Enrolment in a preschool program should be reported for the specified reference period. |
- | Fees charged (early childhood education and care) | 436106 | Currency
[9]
| N[N(8)]
Total number of Australian dollars. | |
- | Preschool program hours attended (total) | 436128 | Number
[2]
| N[N] Total number of hours. | |
- | Preschool program hours enrolled (total) | 436130 | Number
[2]
| N[N] Total number of hours. | |
- | Preschool program received from teacher indicator | 436683 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 7 | Not applicable | 8 | Unknown | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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- | Preschool program repeater indicator | 436651 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Yes | 2 | No | 3 | Unknown | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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- | Postcode—Australian (person) | 287224 | Number
[4]
| {NNNN} The Postcode datafile code set representing Australian postcodes as defined by Australia Post. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the post office box postcode or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian. |
- | Suburb/town/locality name (person) | 287326 | String
[50]
| A[A(49)] A combination of alphabetic characters. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the post office box, suburb/town/locality name or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian. |
- | Area of usual residence (CD) | 413233 | Number
[7]
| NNNNNNN The ASGC (2010) code set representing geographical location at the collection district (CD) level. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the usual residence of the child's parent or guardian. Collection District should be coded based on the full address of the child, including street number, street name, suburb/town locality name and state/territory identifier to obtain the most accurate coding. |
- | Australian state/territory identifier (person) | 286919 | Number
[1]
| 1 | New South Wales | 2 | Victoria | 3 | Queensland | 4 | South Australia | 5 | Western Australia | 6 | Tasmania | 7 | Northern Territory | 8 | Australian Capital Territory | 9 | Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory) |
| DSS specific information: Should be reported for the usual residence of the child's parent or guardian. |
- | Date of birth | 287007 | Date/Time
[8]
| DDMMYYYY
The day of a particular month and year. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the child. For components of the Date of birth which are unknown, 00 should be recorded, for example if a child was born in July 2007 but the day of birth is unknown record 00072007. |
- | Estimated resident population | 388656 | Number
[8]
| N[N(7)] Total number of people. | |
- | Indigenous status | 291036 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin | 2 | Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin | 3 | Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin | 4 | Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| DSS specific information: The parent or guardian should be asked to declare the child’s Indigenous status on their behalf. |
- | Letters of family name | 349481 | String
[3]
| XXX A combination of alphanumeric characters. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the child only, i.e. information not required for teachers. |
- | Letters of family name | 349481 | String
[3]
| XXX A combination of alphanumeric characters. | |
- | Letters of given name | 349483 | String
[2]
| XX A combination of alphanumeric characters. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the child only, i.e. information not required for teachers. |
- | Letters of given name | 349483 | String
[2]
| XX A combination of alphanumeric characters. | |
- | Sex | 287316 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | Intersex or indeterminate | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| DSS specific information: Should be reported for the child only, i.e. information not required for teachers. |
- | Statistical linkage key 581 | 349895 | String
[14]
| XXXXXDDMMYYYYN
A combination of the second, third and fifth alphanumeric characters of a person's family name, the second and third alphanumeric characters of a person's given name, a date in the format DDMMYYYY and a single digit number representing the sex of a person. | |
- | Address line (service provider organisation) | 290315 | String
[180]
| X[X(179)]
A combination of alphanumeric characters. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered only. |
- | Postcode—Australian (service provider organisation) | 290064 | Number
[4]
| {NNNN} The Postcode datafile code set representing Australian postcodes as defined by Australia Post. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered only. |
- | Suburb/town/locality name (service provider organisation) | 290059 | String
[50]
| A[A(49)] A combination of alphabetic characters. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered only. |
- | Organisation name | 288917 | String
[200]
| X[X(199)]
A combination of alphanumeric characters. | DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers a preschool program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates preschool programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of a preschool program. The organisation name type data item is not required. |
- | Geographic location of organisation (CD) | 413119 | Number
[7]
| NNNNNNN The ASGC (2010) code set representing geographical location at the collection district (CD) level. | |
- | Management type (early childhood education and care) | 436087 | Number
[2]
| 1 | Private not for profit - community managed | 2 | Private not for profit - other organisations | 3 | State and territory and local government managed | 4 | Private for profit | 5 | State and territory government schools | 6 | Independent schools | 7 | Catholic schools | 8 | Other | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| DSS specific information: The legal or social entity responsible for managing the delivery of early childhood education and care services is the entity responsible for the day to day running of early childhood education and care services, including task such as the design and the delivery of the preschool program, the hiring and firing of staff, the care of the children, etc. |
- | Preschool program service operation weeks (calendar year) | 450316 | Number
[2]
| 90 | No regular pattern of operation through a year | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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- | Organisation identifier (early childhood education and care) | 397155 | String
[15]
| X(15) A logical combination of alphanumeric characters that identify an entity. | DSS specific information: Should be reported for the location at which the preschool program is delivered. A discrete identifier should be supplied for each preschool program operated as a separate campus or ‘satellite’ of a parent service provider organisation. |
- | Service activity type (early childhood education and care) | 436094 | Number
[2]
| 1 | Long day care | 2 | Occasional care | 3 | Outside school hours care | 4 | Vacation care | 5 | Family day care | 6 | In-home care | 7 | Preschool program: stand-alone | 8 | Preschool program: as part of a school | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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- | Service delivery setting (early childhood education and care) | 436100 | Number
[1]
| 1 | Centre-based—school | 2 | Centre-based—other | 3 | Home-based—child’s home | 4 | Home-based—other | 5 | General community setting | 8 | Other setting | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
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