Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Early childhood education program hours enrolled (total) |
Synonymous names: | Preschool program hours enrolled (total) |
METEOR identifier: | 793277 |
Registration status: | Early Childhood, Recorded 24/05/2024 |
Definition: | The total number of hours of an early childhood education program that a child is enrolled to receive per week. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Child—early childhood education program hours enrolled |
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METEOR identifier: | 763018 |
Registration status: | Early Childhood, Standard 05/07/2022 |
Definition: | The number of hours a child has enrolled in an early childhood education program, in a given week. |
Object class: | Child |
Property: | Early childhood education program enrolment hours |
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 |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total hours N[N] |
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METEOR identifier: | 390307 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 21/05/2010 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 |
Definition: | Total number of hours. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[N] | |
Maximum character length: | 2 | |
Unit of measure: | Hour (h) |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Total hours expressed as 0, 1, 2, 25, 60 etc. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | A child is considered to be enrolled if they have been offered a place and formally enrolled and registered in an early childhood education program, and the child:
Exclude a child who:
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. The hours enrolled may be less than or equal to the maximum number of hours available for children to attend the early childhood education program, but may exceed the number of hours the child attended at the service in the reference period. If the number of hours attended per week is unknown, record 99. |
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Collection methods: | The hours of an early childhood education program a child is enrolled to receive 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 | |
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 Child—early childhood education program hours enrolled (per week), total hours N[N] Early Childhood, Standard 05/07/2022 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2024 Early Childhood, Recorded 24/05/2024 Implementation start date: 01/07/2024 |