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NUMBER OF PRESCHOOL PROGRAM HOURS ENROLLED


Technical name: Service provider organisation - number of preschool program hours enrolled, total hours N[NNNN]
METeOR identifier: 441282
METeOR link: http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/441282
METeOR definition: The total number of hours of a preschool program that children are enrolled in at this service.

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

• Total hours that all children are enrolled in the preschool program component of the service, in the reference period.

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

• Early childhood education and care services that do not deliver a preschool program.

• Number of preschool program enrolments

• 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.

• The data element Number of preschool program hours enrolled may be greater than or equal to the data element Total hours of preschool program attended.

0 - Nil
ns - Not stated/inadequately described

	Edit specifications	Edit resolution
1.	If field is blank.	Provide a valid number of enrolled hours, otherwise amend to ‘0’ for nil hours or code ‘ns’ for unknown.
2.	If character length is greater than 5.	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. Verify that enrolment hours are equal to or greater than attendance hours.

• The total number of hours of a preschool program that children are enrolled in a preschool program should be collected for each preschool program available at the service. These data should then be aggregated to the service provider level for reporting purposes.

• Enrolment hours in non-instructional activities such as recess, tea breaks and lunch breaks should be included if the child was under the supervision of the service provider organisation.

• Where the service provider offers other integrated child care services, the hours associated with these services should be excluded from this data element.

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