Person (employed)—type of work activity, early childhood education and care, code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014

Value domain attributes

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Collection and usage attributes

CODE 1 Primary contact

A ‘primary contact worker’ mainly has direct contact with children.  This may include but is not limited to teachers, teachers’ assistants/aides, specialist teachers and therapists.

CODE 2 Other contact

An ‘other contact worker’ has some duties involving direct contact with children, but deals mainly with staffing or management issues such as supervising staff and handling queries from parents or designing the education program.  This may include but is not limited to principals, deputy principals, centre managers and coordinators.

CODE 3 Management/administration

A staff member who mainly performed management or administration work that contributed to the running of the early childhood education and care service and had no direct contact with children.  Work may include clerical or receptionist duties, filing, keeping financial records, staffing and management issues.

CODE 4 Other work

Any worker who provides support services such as cooking, cleaning or gardening.  This may include drivers, cooks, cleaners and maintenance staff.

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Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

This item is only applicable to paid workers in early childhood education and care services.

For Codes 1 and 2 this includescontact workers who are usually present to deliver a face to face preschool program, but may have been absent during the reference period due to illness or extended holiday leave and are expected to return.

For Codes 1 and 2 this excludes relief teachers who are not present at the early childhood education and care service (i.e. not delivering a face to face preschool program) during the reference period.

The type of work activity should be reported for the main type of work performed by a person during the reference period, regardless of whether this is different to their usual type of work.

‘Main’ is defined as the type of work that the person spends the majority of time performing during the reference period.

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Relational attributes