This document was added or updated on 22/05/2020.

APPENDIX 1 - SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE

Table A1 shows the number of service providers from which data were collected for the 2018 Collection. All service providers that delivered an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) program by a qualified teacher to children between the ages of 3 and 6 years are included in the counts.

A1 NUMBER OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING AN ECEC PROGRAM TO CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 6 YEARS, Sector(a)
			NSW	Vic.	Qld(b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Preschool
	Government		158	229	141	342	660	153	122	83	1 888
	Non-government
		Community	632	808	407	5	-	-	-	-	1 852
		Private for profit(c)	-	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	7
		Independent schools	20	81	29	12	120	24	2	4	292
		Catholic schools	1	-	21	8	132	30	4	-	196
		Total Non-government	653	894	459	25	252	54	6	4	2 347
	Total preschools		811	1 123	600	367	912	207	128	87	4 235
Preschool program within a centre based day care
	Government		204	113	19	54	19	11	1	1	422
	Non-government		2 816	1 426	1 512	331	594	115	84	160	7 038
	Total centre based day care(d)		3 020	1 539	1 531	385	613	126	85	161	7 460
Total service providers with a preschool program delivered by a qualified teacher			3 831	2 662	2 131	752	1 525	333	213	248	11 695
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) State/Territory is derived from the Provider's location. (b) Queensland data includes a small number of occasional care services providing a preschool program. (c) Includes 'Other'. (d) Some preschools are reclassified to centre based day care due to collection methodologies.

The counts were developed by processing service provider information from state and territory submissions and the Australian Government’s Child Care Subsidy System (CCSS) submission. Where the same service provider was identified across two data sources, the service provider has been counted only once.

Information from the multiple data sources was compared and service provider data characteristics were updated to make use of the best available data. This methodology resulted in reclassification of service activity type for some service providers in order to most accurately reflect the activity occurring at a service provider. For example, where a service provider was categorised as ‘preschool’ within a state or territory collection but was also categorised as ‘centre based day care with a preschool program’ within the CCSS submission, the service activity type ‘centre based day care with a preschool program' was adopted for that service provider.

Table A2 shows the number of service providers which had enrolments of 4 and 5 year old children. The category 'Total service providers with a preschool program' in this table corresponds to the child statistics reported in this publication.

A2 NUMBER OF SERVICE PROVIDERS WITH AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERED TO CHILDREN AGED 4 AND 5 YEARS, Sector(a)
			NSW	Vic.	Qld(b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Preschool
	Government		156	229	141	342	659	153	66	83	1 829
	Non-government
		Community	623	808	405	5	-	-	-	-	1 841
		Private for profit(c)	-	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	7
		Independent schools	19	81	29	12	120	24	2	4	291
		Catholic schools	1	-	21	8	132	30	1	-	193
		Total Non-government	643	894	457	25	252	54	3	4	2 332
	Total preschools		799	1 123	598	367	911	207	69	87	4 161
Preschool program within a centre based day care
	Government		203	111	18	54	17	11	1	1	416
	Non-government		2 792	1 413	1 506	329	584	114	83	159	6 980
	Total centre based day care(d)		2 995	1 524	1 524	383	601	125	84	160	7 396
Total service providers with a preschool program delivered by a qualified teacher			3 794	2 647	2 122	750	1 512	332	153	247	11 557
NOT DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Service providers with a preschool program not delivered by a qualified teacher(e)			12	-	2	-	-	-	57	-	71
TOTAL
Total service providers with a preschool program			3 806	2 647	2 124	750	1 512	332	210	247	11 628
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) State/Territory is derived from the Provider's location. (b) Queensland data includes a small number of occasional care services providing a preschool program. (c) Includes 'Other'. (d) Some preschools are reclassified to centre based day care due to collection methodologies. (e) Includes not stated.