This document was added or updated on 08/03/2017.

APPENDIX 1 - SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE


Table A1 shows the number of service providers from which data were collected for the 2016 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 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICE PROVIDERS DELIVERING AN ECEC PROGRAM TO CHILDREN AGED 3 TO 6 YEARS, Sector
			NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Preschool
	Government		159	232	123	340	650	153	123	84	1 864
	Non-government
		Community	641	821	422	4	-	-	-	-	1 888
		Private for profit(a)	-	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	9
		Independent schools	13	84	23	16	123	26	4	4	293
		Catholic schools	5	-	7	8	134	31	4	-	189
		Total Non-government	659	910	456	28	257	57	8	4	2 379
	Total Preschools		818	1 142	579	368	907	210	131	88	4 243
Preschool program within a long day care centre(b)
	Government		236	93	16	59	29	12	2	1	448
	Non-Government		2 576	1 224	1 439	290	528	106	72	144	6 379
	Total preschool program within a long day care centre		2 812	1 317	1 455	349	557	118	74	145	6 827
Total early childhood education and care providers			3 630	2 459	2 034	717	1 464	328	205	233	11 070
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Includes 'Other'
(b) Some preschools are reclassified to long 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 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 a 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 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	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Preschool
	Government		159	232	123	338	650	153	80	84	1 819
	Non-government
		Community	635	821	417	4	-	-	-	-	1 878
		Private for profit(b)	-	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	9
		Independent schools	13	84	23	16	121	26	4	4	291
		Catholic schools	5	-	7	8	134	31	4	-	189
		Total Non-government	653	910	452	28	255	57	8	4	2 367
	Total preschools		812	1 142	574	366	905	210	88	88	4 186
Preschool program within a long day care centre
	Government		235	91	15	59	28	12	2	1	443
	Non-government		2 545	1 214	1 430	290	523	105	71	144	6 322
	Total long day care(c)		2 780	1 305	1 445	349	551	117	73	145	6 765
Total service providers with a preschool program delivered by a qualified teacher			3 592	2 447	2 020	715	1 456	327	161	233	10 951
NOT DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Service providers with a preschool program not delivered by a qualified teacher			6	-	7	2	-	-	43	-	58
TOTAL
Total service providers with a preschool program			3 598	2 447	2 027	717	1 456	327	204	233	11 009
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Due to an expanded CCMS identification and imputation strategy for the 2016 Collection, there has been a significant increase in the number of LDCs with preschool programs. Refer to Explanatory Notes for more information
(b) Includes 'Other'
(c) Some preschools are reclassified to long day care due to collection methodologies