Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program enrolments, total number N[NNNN]

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

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

• attended an early childhood education program for at least one hour during 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.

The number of children enrolled in an early childhood education program should be collected for each early childhood education program available at the service. These data should then be aggregated to the service provider level for reporting purposes.

Each child should be counted only once.

Enrolments in an early childhood education program 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