Person (employed)—hours worked in early childhood education program delivery (per week), total hours NNN

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Hours worked in early childhood education program delivery (per week)
Synonymous names:	Hours worked in preschool program delivery (per week)
METEOR identifier:	602277
Registration status:	Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020
Definition:	The total number of hours worked in early childhood education program delivery by a person per week.
Data Element Concept:	Person (employed)—hours worked in early childhood education program delivery (per week)
Value Domain:	Total hours NNN

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Total
Data type:	String
Format:	NNN
Maximum character length:	3
	Value	Meaning
Supplementary values:	999	Not stated/inadequately described
Unit of measure:	Hour (h)

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Total hours expressed as 000, 001 etc.

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Collection methods:	Record the number of hours worked by a paid contact worker in the face-to-face delivery of an early childhood education program during the reference period. Preparation time and other hours worked that are not related to face-to-face delivery of the early childhood education program are excluded. Jurisdictions which adopt a two week reference period are required to derive their data to a representative reference week. Round to the nearest hour.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Person (employed)—hours worked in preschool program delivery, total hours NNN Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015 Has been superseded by Person (employed)—hours worked in early childhood education program delivery (per week), total hours NNN Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 DSS specific information: This item is reported for the worker. This item allows those jurisdictions who have the capacity to report the number of hours worked in early childhood education program delivery to provide this information voluntarily. Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 DSS specific information: This item is reported for the worker. This item allows those jurisdictions who have the capacity to report the number of hours worked in early childhood education program delivery to provide this information voluntarily. Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 DSS specific information: This item is reported for the worker. This item allows those jurisdictions who have the capacity to report the number of hours worked in early childhood education program delivery to provide this information voluntarily. Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2018 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 DSS specific information: This item is reported for the worker. This item allows those jurisdictions who have the capacity to report the number of hours worked in early childhood education program delivery to provide this information voluntarily. Early childhood education and care worker cluster Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015