APPENDIX 1 SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE


SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE

The population of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) service providers in 2013 are presented in the table below. All ECEC service providers that delivered an ECEC program to children between the ages of 3 and 6 years inclusive, were in-scope for this population.

A1 NUMBER OF SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE PROGRAM, Sector
			NSW	Vic.	Qld(a)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Preschool
	Government		156	227	120	343	641	158	134	78	1 857
	Non-government
		Community	677	838	421	3	-	-	-	-	1 939
		Private for profit	3	9	5	-	-	-	-	-	17
		Independent schools	18	87	15	18	114	27	5	5	289
		Catholic schools	5	-	4	8	129	31	4	-	181
		Total Non-government	703	934	445	29	243	58	9	5	2 426
	Total preschool		859	1 161	565	372	884	216	143	83	4 283
Long day care(b)
	Preschool program within a long day care centre		1 728	983	1 203	203	130	12	33	79	4 371
Total preschool providers			2 587	2 144	1 768	575	1 014	228	176	162	8 654
Long day care without a preschool program			796	231	190	155	352	106	44	42	1 916
Total early childhood education and care providers			3 383	2 375	1 958	730	1 366	334	220	204	10 570
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Qld data includes a small number of occasional care services providing a preschool program
(b) Please see discussion below as to how some preschools are reclassified to long day care due to collection methodologies

The table represents the number of service providers from which data were collected for the 2013 National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection. The counts were developed by processing service provider information from 2013 state and territory submissions and the 2013 Child Care Management System (CCMS) submissions for the ABS National ECEC Collection. Information from the two data sources was compared and certain data characteristics were updated to make use of the best available data. Where the same service provider was identified across two data sources, duplicate records were removed. As in 2012, this methodology resulted in reclassification of service activity type for some service providers in order to most accurately reflect the activity occurring at a service provider. For example, where a service provider was categorised as 'preschool' within a state or territory collection but was also categorised as 'long day care with a preschool program' within the CCMS submission, the service activity type 'long day care with a preschool program' was adopted for that service provider. This has resulted in a number of services and their associated enrolments and attendance data being reclassified in ABS outputs as 'Long day care with a preschool program'.

The category 'Total preschool providers' corresponds to the episode, child and year before full-time schooling statistics reported in this publication. A small number of long day care providers which had enrolments of 3 and/or 6 year old children only, are also included in this category. The category 'long day care without a preschool program' is comprised of services that deliver child care only and whose associated statistics are not contained in this publication. For further information please refer to the National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection: Concepts, Sources and Methods, 2013 (cat. no. 4240.0.55.001).