APPENDIX 1 SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE


SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE

Table A1 shows the number of service providers from which data were collected for the 2014 Collection. All service providers that delivered an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) program to children between the ages of 3 and 6 years are included in the counts.

A1 NUMBER OF SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING AN ECEC PROGRAM TO CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 6 YEARS (a), Sector
			NSW	Vic.	Qld (b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Preschool
	Government		161	231	114	350	649	155	126	80	1 866
	Non-government
		Community	671	840	406	3	-	-	-	-	1 920
		Private for profit(c)	3	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	13
		Independent schools	13	66	27	19	120	27	5	5	282
		Catholic schools	5	-	20	8	131	31	4	-	199
		Total Non-government	692	916	453	30	251	58	9	5	2 414
	Total preschool		853	1 147	567	380	900	213	135	85	4 280
Preschool program within a long day care centre
	Government		214	74	9	47	15	-	-	6	365
	Non-government		1 518	988	1 308	168	229	15	42	76	4 344
	Total long day care		1 732	1 062	1 317	215	244	15	42	82	4 709
Total preschool providers			2 585	2 209	1 884	595	1 144	228	177	167	8 989
Long day care without a preschool program			893	176	62	122	273	97	30	39	1 692
Total early childhood education and care providers			3 478	2 385	1 946	717	1 417	325	207	206	10 681
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data. Discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals
(b) Queensland data includes a small number of occasional care services providing a preschool program
(c) Includes other

The counts were developed by processing service provider information from state and territory submissions and the Australian Government's Child Care Management System (CCMS) 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 the service provider. For example, where a service provider was categorised as 'preschool' within a state or territory collection but was also categorised as 'long day care with a preschool program' within the CCMS submission, the service activity type 'long 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 preschool program providers' in this table corresponds to the child and year before full-time schooling statistics reported in this publication. The category 'Long day care without a preschool program' is comprised of services that deliver child care only and whose associated statistics are not output in this publication.

A2 NUMBER OF SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING A PRESCHOOL PROGRAM TO CHILDREN AGED 4 AND 5 YEARS (a), Sector
			NSW	Vic.	Qld (b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Preschool
	Government		161	231	114	349	648	155	86	80	1 824
	Non-government
		Community	668	840	406	3	-	-	-	-	1 917
		Private for profit(c)	3	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	13
		Independent schools	13	66	27	19	118	27	4	5	279
		Catholic schools	5	-	20	8	131	31	4	-	199
		Total Non-government	689	916	453	30	249	58	8	5	2 408
	Total Preschool		850	1 147	567	379	897	213	94	85	4 232
Preschool program within a long day care centre
	Government		166	70	9	46	7	-	-	5	303
	Non-government		1 106	972	1 286	141	107	10	28	50	3 700
	Total long day care		1 272	1 042	1 295	187	114	10	28	55	4 003
Total service providers with a preschool program delivered by a qualified teacher			2 122	2 189	1 862	566	1 011	223	122	140	8 235
NOT DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Service providers with a preschool program not delivered by a qualified teacher (d)			460	19	22	27	132	5	54	26	745
TOTAL
Total service providers with a preschool program			2 582	2 208	1 884	593	1 143	228	176	166	8 980
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data. Discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals
(b) Queensland data includes a small number of occasional care services providing a preschool program
(c) Includes other
(d) Includes not stated