Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks (calendar year), total NN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Early childhood education program service operation weeks (calendar year) |
| Synonymous names: | Preschool program service operation weeks (calendar year) |
| METEOR identifier: | 763164 |
| Registration status: | Early Childhood, Standard 05/07/2022 |
| Definition: | The total number of weeks per calendar year that the service provider organisation is open to provide early childhood education program services. |
| Data Element Concept: | Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks |
| Value Domain: | Total service operation weeks NN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Total | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | NN | |
| Maximum character length: | 2 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Supplementary values: | 90 | No regular pattern of operation through a year |
| 99 | Not stated/inadequately described | |
| Unit of measure: | Week | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | A week is measured from 12:00AM (midnight) Monday morning to 11:59PM the following Sunday. If a service operates within this period then it is counted as having operated during that week. Therefore if an agency operates for only a short time for one of the days within a week, it is counted as operating during that week. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Valid numbers are 01 to 52. |
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| Collection methods: | A service provider organisation is defined as the organisational unit which delivers an early childhood education and care service at a particular location. The provision of service relates only to the early childhood education program components, i.e. the number of service operation weeks should only be reported for the weeks in the calendar year that the service provider organisation offers an early childhood education program. his should include the usual service operation weeks, irrespective of COVID-19 impacts. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Department of Education |
| Steward: | Early Childhood Policy Group (ECPG) |
| Origin: | Council on Federal Financial Relations (CFFR) 2021. Preschool Reform Agreement. Canberra: CFFR, viewed 4 August 2022 |
| Reference documents: | Australian Government (2018). National information agreement on early childhood education and care. Canberra: Australian Government |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks (calendar year), total NN Early Childhood, Superseded 05/07/2022 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2022 Early Childhood, Superseded 15/08/2023 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2023 Early Childhood, Standard 15/08/2023 |