APPENDIX 1 - SERVICE PROVIDER COVERAGE

Table A1 shows the number of service providers from which data were collected for the 2017 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		159	229	138	339	651	153	122	83	1 874
	Non-government
		Community	637	824	421	4	-	-	-	-	1 886
		Private for profit(c)	-	6	3	1	-	-	-	-	10
		Independent schools	20	85	24	12	123	24	4	5	297
		Catholic schools	1	-	6	8	132	30	4	-	181
		Total Non-government	658	915	454	25	255	54	8	5	2 374
	Total Preschools		817	1 144	592	364	906	207	130	88	4 248
Preschool program within a long day care centre
	Government		233	94	19	61	29	12	2	1	451
	Non-Government		2 674	1 314	1 478	303	561	110	76	151	6 667
	Total long day care (d)		2 907	1 408	1 497	364	590	122	78	152	7 118
Total service providers with a preschool program delivered by a qualified teacher			3 724	2 552	2 089	728	1 496	329	208	240	11 366
- 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 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(b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Preschool
	Government		158	228	138	338	651	153	84	83	1 833
	Non-government
		Community	624	823	417	4	-	-	-	-	1 868
		Private for profit(c)	-	6	3	1	-	-	-	-	10
		Independent schools	20	85	24	12	123	24	3	5	296
		Catholic schools	1	-	6	8	132	30	4	-	181
		Total Non-government	645	914	450	25	255	54	7	5	2 355
	Total preschools		803	1 142	588	363	906	207	91	88	4 188
Preschool program within a long day care centre
	Government		232	93	17	61	28	12	2	1	446
	Non-government		2 651	1 305	1 470	302	547	109	75	151	6 610
	Total long day care(d)		2 883	1 398	1 487	363	575	121	77	152	7 056
Total service providers with a preschool program delivered by a qualified teacher			3 686	2 540	2 075	726	1 481	328	168	240	11 244
NOT DELIVERED BY A QUALIFIED EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER
Service providers with a preschool program not delivered by a qualified teacher(e)			14	2	6	-	-	-	39	-	61
TOTAL
Total service providers with a preschool program			3 700	2 542	2 081	726	1 481	328	207	240	11 305
- 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 long day care due to collection methodologies. (e) Includes not stated.