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NUMBER OF PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ENROLMENTS

ABS short name: EPR_NUMPREENR
ABS Aggregate Template reference: Column AI
METeOR Technical name: Service provider organisation - number of preschool program enrolments, total N[NNNN]
METeOR identifier: 506736
METeOR link: <http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/506736>
METeOR definition: The total number of individual preschool program enrolments recorded at the service.

Scope

Inclusions: For all early childhood education and care services that deliver a preschool program:

• The total number of children enrolled in the preschool program, by single year of age.

• Include those children who live outside of the jurisdiction's borders but are enrolled at a preschool within the jurisdiction. For example, a child living in Tweed Heads who is enrolled at a preschool in Coolangatta (QLD) would be recorded by the QLD jurisdictional agency, not by NSW.

• Children who have only completed enrolment procedures at the service and not yet commenced.

• Children who have left the service (e.g. have ceased education or changed service providers), or have been absent without explanation for four continuous weeks (excluding school vacations) prior to the reference period.

• Children in ECEC services which do not deliver a preschool program.

• Age

• Indigenous status

• The child must have been offered a place in a preschool program and actively attending to be counted as enrolled.

• A child is considered to be actively attending if they have attended a preschool program for at least one hour in the reference period or was absent during the reference period due to illness or extended holiday leave but was expected to return.

• The nominal and operational definitions of Number of preschool program enrolments differ due to the aggregate data collection methodology.

2.4.18 LEGAL VALUE CHECKS
	Edit specifications	Edit resolution
1.	If field is blank.	Provide a valid number of enrolled children, otherwise amend to ‘0’ for nil children.
2.	If character length is greater than 5.	Provide a valid number of enrolled children.
3.	Of total number of children enrolled is less than total number of children attending in a preschool program.	Provide a valid number of enrolled and attending children and verify that enrolments are equal to or greater than number of children attending.

• The number of children enrolled in a preschool program should be collected for each preschool program available at the service. Each child should be counted only once and data should then be aggregated to the service provider level for reporting purposes.

• The total number of children enrolled, cross classified by their age (as at 1 July 2013) should be reported.

• A child should only be counted as being enrolled in a preschool program if they have been offered a place in a preschool program and are actively attending. A child is considered to be actively attending if they have attended a preschool program for at least one hour in the reference period or was absent during the reference period due to illness or extended holiday leave but was expected to return.

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