Service provider organisation—number of preschool program hours enrolled, total hours N[NNNN]

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

This item is a sum of the hours of all children enrolled in a preschool program at this service.

The child must have been offered a place and be formally enrolled or registered  in a preschool program and be actively attending to be counted. A child is considered to be actively attending if they:

• attended a preschool program for at least one hour in the reference period OR
• were absent during the reference period due to illness or extended holiday leave but expected to return.

Exclude children who have:

• only completed enrolment procedures at the service
• left the service (e.g. have ceased education or changed services), or have been absent without explanation for four continuous weeks (excluding school vacations) prior to the reference period.

Non-instructional times such as recess, tea breaks and lunch breaks should be included if the child was under the supervision of the service provider organisation.

The hours enrolled may be less than or equal to the maximum number of hours available for children to attend a preschool program, but may exceed the total number of hours children attended the service in the reference period.

The number of hours of a preschool program that children are enrolled in a preschool program should be collected for each preschool program available at the service. These data should then be aggregated to the service provider level for reporting purposes.

The total number of hours of a preschool program children are enrolled to receive should be reported for the specified reference period.

Jurisdictions which adopt a two week reference period are required to derive their data to a representative reference week.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes