CHILDREN

Within the Children Statistical Population there are three sub-populations:

• Child Episodes
• Child
• Year Before Full-time Schooling.

Further information about the concepts behind these sub-populations can be found in Chapter 3: Concepts, Methods and Processes.

EPISODES OF A PRESCHOOL PROGRAM

Episodes of a preschool program, population concept presents counts of episodes of 4 and 5 year old preschool children during the 2013 Collection reference period. All jurisdictions, irrespective of whether data were provided at the child record level or at the service provider record level, were included in these tables. More information on episodes of a preschool program can be found in Chapter 3: Concepts, Methods and Processes.

Episodes of preschool program data were reported separately for enrolment and attendance. Within these two data items, additional tables were produced by various cross-classifications.

Table 4.2 identifies the location of population concepts of episodes of a preschool program within the Preschool Education, Australia, 2013 (cat. no. 4240.0) publication.

Population Concept	Output table number
Age, Sector Type, State and Territory	2

Children in a Preschool Program in 2013

This population concept presents counts of unique 4 and 5 year old preschool children, during the 2013 collection reference period. More information on children in a preschool program can be found in Chapter 3: Concepts, Methods and Processes.

To be included in these tables, data had to be of a quality that allowed accurate identification of unique child records to ensure that each child was counted once only in the collection year. This required child data collected with a unit record level (URL) data collection methodology. See ‘Creating unique child records from episode records’ Chapter 3: Concepts, Methods and Processes.

Numbers of children in a preschool program were reported separately for enrolment and attendance. Within these two data items, additional tables were produced by various cross-classifications for performance reporting under the National Partnership on ECEC.

Table 4.3 identifies the location of population concepts of children in a preschool program within the Preschool Education, Australia, 2013 (cat. no. 4240.0) publication.

Population Concept	Output table number
Age, Sector type, State and Territory	3, 4
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Age, Sector type, State and Territory	6, 7
Age, Disadvantage index, State and Territory	9, 10
Age, Disadvantage index, State and Territory, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status	11
Remoteness area, Sector type, State and Territory	14, 15
Remoteness area, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Sector type, State and Territory	17, 18
Weekly hours, Sector Type, State and Territory	21, 22
Weekly hours, Remoteness Area, State and Territory	24
Weekly hours, State and Territory, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander	25
Hourly fees charged, Sector type, State and Territory	28
Hourly fees charged, State and Territory, Remoteness Area	29

Children in a Preschool Program in the Year Before Full-time Schooling

This population concept presents unique child counts of 4 and 5 year old children who in 2013 were in the year or two before full-time schooling for the first time. The 2013 YBFS cohort excludes 5 year old children who were reported as 4 year old YBFS children in 2012, i.e. those children who had been identified to be undertaking preschool for more than one year. More information on children in a preschool program in the YBFS can be found in Chapter 3: Concepts, Methods and Processes.

To be included in these tables, URL methodology was used, and data had to be of a quality that allowed accurate identification of unique child records across multiple years to ensure that each child was counted once only in the totals. As the identification of unique children in the YBFS population is only feasible after two years of data has been collected, and relies on jurisdictions accurately setting a preschool repeater flag for children undertaking a second year of preschool, the published YBFS data can only be an estimate of the true YBFS population. Operationally for 2013, all 4 year old children, and any 5 year old child without a preschool repeater indicator set, are included in the YBFS cohort. See ‘Identification of Unique Child Records in the YBFS’ in Chapter 3: Concepts, Methods and Processes. Counts of YBFS preschool children were reported separately for enrolment and attendance. Within these two data items, additional tables were produced by various cross-classifications for performance reporting under the National Partnership on ECEC.

Table 4.4 identifies the location of population concepts of children in a preschool program in the YBFS within the Preschool Education, Australia, 2013 (cat. no. 4240.0) publication.

Population Concept	Output table number
Age, Sector type, State and Territory	5
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Age, Sector type, State and Territory	8
Age, Disadvantage index, State and Territory	12, 13
Remoteness area, Sector type, State and Territory	16
Remoteness area, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, Sector type, State and Territory	19, 20
Weekly hours, Sector type, State and Territory	23
Remoteness area, Weekly hours, State and Territory	26, 27
Hourly fees charged, State and Territory, Remoteness Index	30

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