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PRESCHOOL PROGRAM HOURS ENROLLED PER WEEK

ABS short name: PSN_HRSENRPW
ABS Template reference (Child URL): Column O
METeOR Technical name: Child - preschool program hours enrolled per week, total hours N[N]
METeOR identifier: 506729
METeOR link: <http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/506729>
METeOR definition: The total number of hours of a preschool program that a child is enrolled to receive per week.

Scope

Inclusions: Total hours that the child is enrolled in a preschool program in the reference period, for:

• Children enrolled in a preschool program, AND

• Children that have attended for at least one hour during the reference period, OR

• Children who were absent during the reference period due to illness or extended holiday leave, but are expected to return.

• Non-instructional times such as recess, tea breaks and lunch breaks if the child is under direct supervision of the service provider.

• Hours that the child is enrolled in non-preschool programs offered by the service provider.

• Children who were absent during the reference period and were not expected to return.

• Children not enrolled in a preschool program.

• Children who have only completed enrolment procedures at the service.

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

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

• A child is considered to be actively attending if they 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.

• Preschool program hours enrolled per week may be less than or equal to the data element Maximum preschool program hours available, but may be greater than or equal to the data element Preschool program hours attended.

99 - Not stated/inadequately described

2.1.13 LEGAL VALUE CHECKS
	Edit specifications	Edit resolution
1.	If field is blank.	Provide valid number of enrolled hours, otherwise amend to ‘0’ for nil hours or code ‘99’ for unknown.
2.	If character length is greater than 2.	Provide a valid number of enrolled hours.
3.	If total number of hours enrolled is less than the total number of hours attended in a preschool program.	Provide a valid number of enrolled and attending hours and verify that enrolment hours are equal to or greater than attendance hours.

• Record the total number of whole hours that the child is enrolled in the preschool program, i.e. minutes should be rounded to the nearest whole hour.

• Enrolment hours can be derived by recording the number of sessions the child is enrolled and deriving total hours from the usual length of each session.

• Include hours enrolled in non-instructional activities such as recess, tea breaks and lunch breaks if the child will remain under the supervision of the service provider for these activities.

• Where the facility provides other integrated child care services, the hours the child is enrolled with these services should be excluded.

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