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The 1999 Child Care Survey CURFs consist of 9,831 unidentifiable individual statistical records containing data on children aged under 12 years living in private dwellings.
The data on the Basic CURF includes demographic characteristics, weekly cost of child care, weekly hours of child care, number of weekdays of child care, reasons used child care, requirements for additional child care, reason additional care not used, whether received assistance from Child-care Cash Rebate, whether child care use changed, reasons child care use changed, parents' source/s of income and whether parents studying.
The data on the Expanded CURF includes demographic characteristics, use of child care, weekly cost of child care, weekly hours of child care, number of weekdays of child care, reasons used child care, requirements for additional child care, reason additional care not used, whether received assistance from Child-care Cash Rebate, whether child care use had changed, reasons child care use changed, parents' source/s of income, whether parents studying, working arrangements of parents normally used to assist with care of children, details about long day care, details about preschool and details about before and after school care.
The Basic CURF can be accessed on both CD-ROM and via the ABS Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL) and the Expanded CURF can only be accessed via the RADL.
For more information, please refer to the Child Care Survey (1999) Basic and Expanded CURF Technical Paper (cat. no. 4444.0.55.002).
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CHILD CARE SURVEY, 1999, BASID AND EXPANDED CURFs
The main differences between the Basic and Expanded CURFs are listed below:
Additional variables on the Expanded CURF:
- Whether mother studying full-time last week
- Whether father studying full-time last week
- Full-time or part-time status of mother
- Full-time or part-time status of father
- Working arrangements mother normally used to care for child
- Working arrangements father normally used to care for child
- Child's country of birth
- All reasons used formal care
- All reasons used informal care
- Whether stopped using formal child care in last 12 months
- Whether preferred type of formal care was available
- Main reason formal care was not available
- Time of day of attendance at before and/or after school care program
- Location of before and/or after school care
- Whether long day care centre provides care before 9am and/or after 5pm
- Whether long day care centre conducts its program during school holidays
- All reasons for choosing a long day care centre
- Main reason for choosing a long day care centre
- Whether long day care service is located where would be most suited
- Where long day care centre location is preferred
- All reasons for not using preferred location of long day care centre
- All reasons for choosing a preschool
- Main reason for choosing a preschool
- Whether vacation care program required in last 12 months
- Family weight
Additional detail on the Expanded CURF:
- Age of mother
- Age of father
- Weekly hours worked by mother
- Weekly hours worked by father
- Weekly income of mother
- Weekly income of father
- Main reason used formal care
- Main reason used informal care
- Main reason (additional) formal are not used
- Main reason (additional) formal care required
- Number of days (additional) formal care required
- Weekly cost of care
- Weekly hours of care
This page last updated 4 July 2008
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