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 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.

The number of Indigenous 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.