Child—maximum early childhood education program hours available, total hours N[N]

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020

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

Count the maximum hours available that the child is able to be enrolled and attend the early childhood education program at the service. The maximum hours available to the child may be less than the opening hours of the service, but may exceed the number of hours the child is enrolled for or attended during 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.

Where this data element is not able to be reported accurately at an individual child level, for each early childhood education program, count the total hours enrolled for the child with the highest enrolment hours during the reference period, and record this total for all children enrolled in that early childhood education program.

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

This data element provides information on the proportion of children that are enrolled in early childhood education programs that are available for at least 15 hours per week or at least 600 hours per year.

Source and reference attributes

Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment

Relational attributes