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["3A  Early childhood education and care"]
[null,"— attachment"]
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["Tables in this attachment are sourced from the Early childhood education and care attachment of the 2014 Report. Table numbers refer to the 2014 Report, for example, a reference to ‘2014 Report, table 3A.15’ refers to attachment table 15 of attachment 3A of the 2014 Report."]
["Definitions for indicators and descriptors in this attachment are in the Early childhood education and care chapter of the Compendium. "]
["Data in this Compendium are examined by the Early Childhood Education and Care Working Group, but have not been formally audited by the Secretariat. Unsourced information was obtained from the Australian, State and Territory governments. "]
["This file is available in Adobe PDF format on the Review web page (www.pc.gov.au/gsp)."]

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["All jurisdiction data"]
["Table 3A.1","Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia, as at 30 June 2013 "]
["Table 3A.12","Representation of special needs groups attending Australian Government approved child care services (per cent), by age group, 2013   "]
["Table 3A.13","Representation of special needs groups attending Australian Government approved child care services, children aged 0–12 (per cent)    "]
["Table 3A.14","Representation of children from special needs groups in child care and preschool programs, 2012      "]
["Table 3A.18","Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area, national only, 2012    "]
["Table 3A.19","Indigenous children enrolled in a preschool program, 2012  "]
["Table 3A.25","Children absent from non-government preschools, 2012   "]
["Table 3A.26","Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years attending a preschool program in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area, national only, 2012    "]
["Table 3A.27","Indigenous children attending a preschool program, 2012  "]

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["All jurisdiction data"]

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["Table 3A.1",null,null,null,"Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia, as at 30 June 2013 (a)"]
[null,null,null,"Child care",null,"Preschool",null,null,"Transition to primary school"]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"Year prior to Year One"]
[null,null,null,"Agency (b)",null,"Program","Age of entry","Agency (b)","School year","Age of entry"]
["NSW (c)",null,null,"Department of Education and Communities",null,"Preschool ","generally 4 and 5 year olds","Department of Education and Communities","Kindergarten","5 by 31 July"]
["Vic (d)",null,null,"Department of Education and Early Childhood Development",null,"Kindergarten","4 by 30 April","Department of Education and Early Childhood Development","Preparatory (Prep)","5 by 30 April"]
["Qld (e)",null,null,"Department of Education, Training and Employment",null,"Kindergarten","4 by 30 June","Department of Education, Training and Employment","Preparatory Year (Prep)","5 by 30 June"]
["WA",null,null,"Department of Local Government and Communities",null,"Kindergarten","4 by 30 June","Department of Education","Pre Primary","5 by 30 June"]
["SA (f) ",null,null,"Department for Education and Child Development",null,"Preschool Kindergarten ","entry after 4th birthday ","Department for Education and Child Development","Reception","entry after 5th birthday"]
["Tas",null,null,"Department of Education",null,"Kindergarten","4 by 1 January","Department of Education","Preparatory","5 by 1 January"]
["ACT (g)",null,null,"Community Services Directorate and Education and Training Directorate",null,"Preschool","4 by 30 April","Education and Training Directorate","Kindergarten","5 by 30 April"]
["NT (h)",null,null,"Department of Education",null,"Preschool","4 by 30 June, or 3 for Indigenous children in remote areas","Department of Education","Transition","5 by 30 June"]
[]
["(a)","The Early childhood education and care chapter reports data for child care and preschool services only. Data on primary school are reported in the School education chapter (chapter 4), but relate to 2012. Information on the first year of primary school are included here to show the point at which children can transition from preschool to the first year of primary school in each jurisdiction. "]
["(b)","The departmental responsibility of agencies varies between child care and preschool. Agency responsibility refers to licensing services for child care, and licensing, funding and/or providing services for preschool programs. State and Territory education departments are responsible for primary school."]
["(c)","In NSW, all licensed children’s services for under 6 year olds (who have not commenced Kindergarten) are required to offer programs that meet children’s educational and developmental needs. "]
["(d)","In Victoria, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and children known to child protection are eligible for free kindergarten through Early Start Kindergarten funding if they are aged 3 by 30 April of the year in which they are enrolled."]
["(e)","All licensed children’s services in Queensland are required to provide an appropriate program that is designed to stimulate and develop each child’s creative, emotional, intellectual, lingual, physical, recreational and social potential."]
["(f)","In SA, some children are entitled to enrol in preschool earlier. Indigenous children and children under the guardianship of the Minister can enter from 3 years, children with additional needs (which includes gifted children) and those living in small rural communities may commence at 3 ½ years. The compulsory school starting age in SA is 6 years at the oldest."]
["(g)","In the ACT, private preschools are monitored and assessed by the ACT Community Services Directorate. "]
["(h)","In the NT children turning four after 30 June are eligible to enrol in a preschool program after their birthday, if places are available and with the understanding that the child will access more than 12 months of preschool. Indigenous children living in remote areas are eligible to enrol in preschool if they turn three on or prior to 30 June of the same year. "]
["Source:",null,null,"State and Territory governments (unpublished)."]

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["Table 3A.12",null,null,null,"Representation of special needs groups attending Australian Government approved child care services (per cent), by age group, 2013 (a), (b), (c)"]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"NSW","Vic","Qld","WA","SA","Tas","ACT","NT","Aust"]
["Children from non-English speaking backgrounds"]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,22.985383916484,25.647453337312001,9.6805394144603998,14.300747798363,12.413460089200001,3.9369890574272,17.048986610922,12.485267846997001,18.465927926237001]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in the community, 2011",null,null,null,null,null,25,24.8,14.1,18.899999999999999,16.7,8.1467858271789417,20.8,38.700000000000003,21.2]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,17.552174403514002,23.188994741955,7.7593042240976997,11.197304651014001,7.3351908992724999,2.5497387522905002,14.405030035412,7.1225562842767003,14.797786765718]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in the community, 2011",null,null,null,null,null,22.5,22.1,12.4,17.2,14.8,6.7,17.7,41.1,19]
["Indigenous children"]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in child care services ",null,null,null,null,null,3.070099075571,0.94903555802060002,4.3137346553627998,2.7866779819533001,1.8564117936749001,5.889618409933,1.4246994231704999,11.212814645309001,2.8767305924538]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in the community, 2012",null,null,null,null,null,4.8365669625841399,1.28721196718493,6.94792868674483,5.8695522727395799,3.7187209409478199,7.6145902978976299,2.5791366906474802,40.816935002981502,4.9727263974226004]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in child care services ",null,null,null,null,null,2.0965857458133002,0.62660791156170004,3.3077708338520999,2.1496358419775001,1.6559670781892999,5.2165213662997996,1.2543835985972001,12.956555171088,2.1399012689096999]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in the community, 2012",null,null,null,null,null,4.2190791646492602,1.24067985990245,6.4246689859163597,5.8217858484170097,3.5934276342154901,6.89953350779383,2.4152799299333001,44.616392368787402,4.6514312036822796]
["Children from low-income families"]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,25.719850000000001,25.665870000000002,28.77167,22.094249999999999,24.090530000000001,29.968150000000001,8.2493569999999998,14.874140000000001,25.641608600000001]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in the community, 2011-12",null,null,null,null,null,22.2,17.600000000000001,23.5,14.1,24,28.3,8.9,15.9,20.399999999999999]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,21.058890000000002,27.44848,24.939620000000001,23.465019999999999,22.959669999999999,26.539950000000001,6.2719180000000003,13.26413,23.580701600000001]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in the community, 2011-12",null,null,null,null,null,22.9,23.1,19.600000000000001,13.5,19.899999999999999,25.6,6.6,28.5,20.9]
["Children with disability "]
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[null,"Children aged 0–5 in the community, 2009",null,null,null,null,null,4.5999999999999996,2.8,4,5.2,3.4,4.7,3.7,"np",4]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,3.3622819037512999,2.8284026981446999,2.8295045485129999,2.4834348778202999,5.4526025871490003,3.3522038649708001,3.2748304021878001,8.2359986078285008,3.2636286448176]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in the community, 2009",null,null,null,null,null,9.8000000000000007,8.3000000000000007,7.4,10.9,8.1999999999999993,11.8,12.9,8.5,9]
["Children from regional areas"]
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[null,"Children aged 0–5 in the community, 2011",null,null,null,null,null,24.7,23.9,35.5,17.5,23.6,97.8,0.2,51.7,27.5]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,19,16.100000000000001,26.9,10.9,13.7,99.3,0,86.4,21.1]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in the community, 2011",null,null,null,null,null,27.2,26,37.1,19,25.6,98,0.2,50.7,29.5]
["Children from remote areas"]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,0.20665418216920001,0,1.0937590711176,4.1128145194555001,1.9240979463546,0.94564168542939997,"..",21.597892888499,0.98406042373570002]
[null,"Children aged 0–5 in the community, 2011",null,null,null,null,null,0.6,8.4741389378535981E-2,3.8,7.9,4,2.1,"..",48,2.7]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in child care services",null,null,null,null,null,0.13266891017339999,0,0.75268150536300005,1.9737131302474999,0.82658128593830005,0.70412617941139999,"..",13.604919292851999,0.56996153690939999]
[null,"Children aged 6–12 in the community, 2011",null,null,null,null,null,0.6,0.1,3.5,7.6,4.2,1.9,"..",49,2.7]
[]
["(a)","Refer to table 3A.13 for complete footnotes."]
["(b)","Excludes children aged 6–12 years attending occasional care services. The number of children aged 6–12 years using occasional care services were too small to be included here."]
["(c)","Data in italics have relative standard errors greater than 25 per cent and need to be used with caution."]
[null,".. Not applicable. – Nil or rounded to zero."]
["Source:",null,null,"Department of Education (unpublished) National Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Census, 2013 (preliminary data); administrative data collection, ABS (unpublished) Household Income and Income Distribution, Australia, 2011-12, Cat. no. 6523.0, 2011 Census of Population and Housing, Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2009, Cat. no. 4430.0 and Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 1991 to 2021 (Series B), Cat. no. 3238.0, Canberra."]

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["Table 3A.13",null,null,null,"Representation of special needs groups attending Australian Government approved child care services, children aged 0–12 (per cent) (a), (b), (c) "]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,"NSW","Vic","Qld","WA","SA","Tas","ACT","NT","Aust"]
["Children from non-English speaking backgrounds (d), (e) "]
[null,"Representation in child care services "]
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[null,null,"2008-09",null,null,null,18.022355127162999,17.200396792593001,7.2944459538490998,9.7429531726959997,9.3169892601789002,4.1891236736186999,10.302111672496,11.510149797004001,13.178274248201999]
[null,null,2010,null,null,null,19.678343280002998,17.2,6.4618297342320998,9.8000000000000007,7.8272825588468997,3.2,13.1,11,13.719849025318]
[null,null,2013,null,null,null,21.3,24.8,9,13.4,10.4,3.5,16,10.6,17.3]
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["Indigenous children (f)"]
[null,"Representation in child care services  "]
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["Children from low-income families (g)"]
[null,"Representation in child care services  "]
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[null,null,"2006 ",null,null,null,25.212510217805001,26.508547953495,28.600538498751,27.634099616857998,29.297337278107001,29.057564951604999,10.37153505707,17.478951737222999,26.580634464462999]
[null,null,"2008-09",null,null,null,24.429605543297001,23.712215149761999,24.667406530758999,22.658634798986999,24.580428994525001,24.798755945846999,9.5802565099105994,16.211675766485001,23.920152683367]
[null,null,2010,null,null,null,24.097342860000001,23.975053620000001,24.892037389999999,22.68618099,24.128371120000001,24.84171491,8.7830561209999995,14.43857699,23.868425720000001]
[null,null,2013,null,null,null,24.428619999999999,26.247160000000001,27.547650000000001,22.480530000000002,23.644880000000001,28.896339999999999,7.5769390000000003,14.368510000000001,25.001984100000001]
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["Children with disability (h)"]
[null,"Representation in child care services  "]
[null,null,"2004 ",null,null,null,2.1024023793042002,2.0373659507199,1.9593285311091,1.6795748462808,3.4803451581974998,2.1729682746632002,2.0583190394511002,2.4432379072063002,2.1404698351317002]
[null,null,"2006 ",null,null,null,3.1416479759685001,2.4311334039358998,2.1930874742844999,2.4887110016420002,3.7544378698225001,2.348446255731,1.8343815513627,3.7234673307245001,2.7070751730859999]
[null,null,"2008-09",null,null,null,3.7686795958657999,2.4701000247995002,2.6362171148062998,2.4565824511268,5.4597032339127001,2.6839096231248001,1.9476616141987,3.6749265014699999,3.1694896430506998]
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[null,"Representation in the community, 2009 (h)",null,null,null,null,7.4,5.7,5.8,8.1999999999999993,5.9,8.4,8.3000000000000007,5.4,6.6]
["Children from regional and remote areas (i)"]
[null,"Regional"]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services (j)"]
[null,null,null,"2004 ",null,null,25.860403900554658,22.470840276124733,38.861683305952234,18.226833294034424,16.180888462767655,99.554541503694054,0,73.988153998025666,28.79325838795782]
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[null,"Remote"]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services "]
[null,null,null,"2004 ",null,null,0.35766479501576798,9.3994714323207537E-2,1.5865242849319685,4.9716140968204163,1.9702780441035475,0.44545849630595391,"..",26.01184600197433,1.3575893208848699]
[null,null,null,"2006 ",null,null,0.33784191897431354,0,1.292983390587511,3.7235953134353883,2.0473372781065087,0.60624586071628705,"..",22.72026562314716,1.1407584373041324]
[null,null,null,"2008-09",null,null,0.24077730035226261,0,1.0849293368392454,3.4454763915048385,1.7022167708738445,0.83593149880258466,"..",21.027579448411032,0.9562025203378639]
[null,null,null,2010,null,null,0.21670272359206436,0,1.1742751401835698,3.3199289254652578,1.7737393677243301,0.61505065123010128,"..",20.247359644246803,0.93419570302000954]
[null,null,null,2013,null,null,0.18701336066605526,0,0.99054784334153823,3.5350896833096992,1.5036716053867512,0.88025022341376224,"..",19.125815020526442,0.86090587235558169]
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[]
["(a)","Data in italics have relative standard errors above 25 per cent, and need to be used with caution."]
["(b)","Data for 2004 and 2006 are drawn from the respective AGCCCS, while data for 2008-09 are drawn from the AGCCPS and DEEWR administrative data. Data from 2008-09 are not comparable to previous years due to the change in the source for data collection."]
["(c) ","Children attending approved services in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2013 may be counted more than once if attending more than one service during the reference week. In 2008-09, children are counted once for each care type they used."]
["(d) ","Excludes Aboriginal playgroups and enrichment programs and mobile and toy library services, as data from these service types were not available."]
["(e)","Children from non-English speaking backgrounds in child care services are children who speak, or whose parent/guardian speak a language other than English at home. Data on representation in child care services are from the 2013 National Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Census. Data on representation in the community refer to the proportion of children who do not speak English as their main language at home as estimated from the ABS 2011 Census of Population and Housing."]
["(f)","Indigenous children in child care services are children who child care services identified as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. Data on representation in child care services are from Australian Government administrative data for the March quarter. Due to a change in data source data cannot be compared to data in previous editions. The representation in the community data are from the ABS Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, for 30 June 2012."]
["(g)","Children from low income families include those families in receipt of the maximum rate of Child Care Benefit (CCB). The maximum CCB rate was $31 755 in 2003-04, $33 361 in 2005-06, $35 478 in 2007-08, $36 573 in 2008-09, $37 960 in 2009-10 and $39 785 in 2011-12. Data on representation in child care services are from Australian Government administrative data for the March quarter. The data showing representation children from low income families in the community are drawn from ABS Household Income and Income Distribution, Australia, 2011-12. "]
["(h)","Children with disability in child care services are children who child care services identify as having continuing disability including intellectual, sensory or physical impairment. Data on representation in child care services are from the 2013 National Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Census. Data on representation in the community refer to children with any limitation, restriction or impairment, which has lasted, or is likely to last, for at least six months and restricts everyday activities. These data were obtained from ABS Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia, 2009."]
["(i)","Regional and remote areas are based upon the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2011. Regional areas include inner regional and outer regional areas. Remote areas include remote and very remote areas. Children can use care in multiple regions and states and territories, and may be counted in more than one region. Data on representation in child care services are from Australian Government administrative data for the March quarter. Data on representation in the community are estimated from the ABS 2011 Census of Population and Housing. "]
["(j)","The proportion of children from regional areas in child care services can exceed 100 per cent. This may occur because although the number of children in child care services is a unique count for each state and territory, children can be counted in more than one remoteness area. "]
[null,".. Not applicable. – Nil or rounded to zero. "]
["Source:",null,null,"Department of Education (unpublished) National Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Census, 2013 (preliminary data); administrative data collection, Australian Government Census of Child Care Services 2006 and Australian Government Child Care Provider Survey 2007-08; FaCSIA (unpublished) Australian Government Census of Child Care Services 2004; ABS (unpublished) Household Income and Income Distribution, Australia, 2011-12, Cat. no. 6523.0, 2011 Census of Population and Housing, Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2009, Cat. no. 4430.0 and Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 1991 to 2021 (Series B), Cat. no. 3238.0, Canberra."]

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["Table 3A.14",null,null,null,"Representation of children from special needs groups in child care and preschool programs, 2012 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) "]
[null,null,null,null,null,"Unit","NSW (f) ","Vic (g)","Qld (h)","WA ","SA ","Tas","ACT (i)","NT (j)","Aust (k)"]
["Children from non-English speaking backgrounds"]
[null,"Child care services"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 0–12 years",null,null,"no.",15044.575898089999,"na",68,"na",240,6,"na","na",15358.575898089999]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services",null,null,"%",12.779345131889835,"na",5.0221565731166917,"na",8.3916083916083917,1.5424164524421593,"na","na",12.555167801007924]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 0–12 years in the community, 2011",null,null,"%",23.706980075710899,23.426759916232399,13.225040267200225,17.993802562865714,15.7,7.3325327754187457,19.213430747707136,40,20.025274404639934]
[null,"Preschool programs"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 3–5 years (l)",null,null,"no.",8564,10229,3211,"na",2260,183,1010,"na",25457]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs",null,null,"%",12.199777771446479,14.109938616456308,8.2496210466819093,"na",12.424409015942826,2.7535359614805901,22.559749832477106,"na",10.195238190592523]
[null,null,"Number of children in the YBFS",null,null,"no.",6226,10229,2843,"na","na","na",955,"na",20253]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs in the YBFS",null,null,"%",11.652262750086576,14.221758776503302,7.9707300661657499,"na","na","na",22.765196662693683,"na",9.0246095185602808]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 3–5 years in the community, 2011",null,null,"%",23.684124594089582,23.417352645091061,13.208591674047829,17.726801026817412,15.4,7.4186460186250915,19.632606199770379,39.299999999999997,19.979162242824042]
["Children with disability "]
[null,"Child care services"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 0–12 years",null,null,"no.",5620.5855440287996,"na",139,"na",20,9,"na","na",5788.5855440287996]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services",null,null,"%",4.7743055701273542,"na",10.265878877400295,"na",0.69930069930069927,2.3136246786632388,"na","na",4.7319922965519501]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 0–12 years in the community, 2009",null,null,"%",7.4,5.7,5.8,8.1999999999999993,5.9,8.4,8.3000000000000007,5.4,6.6]
[null,"Preschool programs"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 3–5 years (l), (m)",null,null,"no.",5222,2806,1107,1110,2190,67,137,148,12787]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs",null,null,"%",7.4389583748824748,3.8706117663287123,2.8440767669501326,3.1494722505958457,12.039582188015393,1.0081251880830575,3.0600848782666965,4.202157864849517,5.1210476781673639]
[null,null,"Number of children in the YBFS",null,null,"no.",3732,2806,1030,1016,"na","na",89,81,8754]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs in the YBFS",null,null,"%",6.9846200744174611,3.9012860618700032,2.8877425142985311,3.1479473276529819,"na","na",2.1215733015494638,2.5085165685970887,3.900727384855414]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 3–5 years in the community, 2009",null,null,"%",7.3,3.9,7.3,6.8,5.5,7.2,7.3,"np",6.3]
["Indigenous children "]
[null,"Child care services"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 0–12 years",null,null,"no.",5913.1942506078003,"na",63,"na",130,4,"na","na",6110.1942506078003]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services",null,null,"%",5.0228567872104275,"na",4.6528803545051698,"na",4.5454545454545459,1.0282776349614395,"na","na",4.9948976143468515]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 0–12 years in the community, 2012",null,null,"%",4.5057395439287271,1.262878518030768,6.6702690475891284,5.8444257432855427,3.652283414989276,7.2419599658476423,2.4945204049681662,42.754258517034067,4.8027038706763259]
[null,"Preschool programs"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 3–5 years",null,null,"no.",4807,969,2567,2274,1465,521,185,1428,14216]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs",null,null,"%",4.4973990494367726,1.20002972209838,4.4015775034293556,6.7805707129439137,6.110531803962461,7.5093686941481694,3.1430513081889231,38.387096774193544,4.4423889402764933]
[null,null,"Number of children in the YBFS",null,null,"no.",2898,883,2236,2066,857,512,136,1165,10753]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs in the YBFS",null,null,"%",4.6187683284457481,1.1957964302158663,4.2346078821279098,6.4475860562369309,4.5495567234697676,7.7038820343063499,2.7167399121054734,36.157666045934199,4.2144993199891827]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 3–5 years in the community, 2012",null,null,"%",4.5985398756190303,1.2372078093727601,6.6702834521321996,5.66449507881459,3.5826639892904999,6.9886391580189802,2.54577284995259,40.907108591365002,4.7714351376539899]
["Children from regional areas "]
[null,"Child care services"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 0–12 years",null,null,"no.",28555.622313078002,"na",733,"na",920,389,"na","na",30597.622313078002]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services",null,null,"%",24.256061152315183,"na",54.135893648449041,"na",32.167832167832167,100,"na","na",25.012623891797979]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 0–12 years in the community, 2011",null,null,"%",26.040592538253389,24.982163596188435,36.39284970514656,18.269593758520163,24.7,97.935055770825855,0.2,51.181651290869802,28.554759539570394]
[null,"Preschool programs"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 3–5 years",null,null,"no.",33485,18815,19450,5921,5828,6800,189,1925,92413]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs",null,null,"%",31.328355974701545,23.30088670926834,33.350480109739365,17.655127172973135,24.308654848800835,98.010954165465549,3.2110091743119269,51.747311827956985,28.878340541486462]
[null,null,"Number of children in the YBFS",null,null,"no.",19743,"np",17646,7473,4698,6527,148,1760,57995]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs in the YBFS",null,null,"%",31.465956904245822,"np",33.418555763877052,23.321786349592735,24.940277114190156,98.209449292807705,2.9564522572912506,54.624456859093726,22.730390408516008]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 3–5 years in the community, 2011",null,null,"%",25.508771293289552,24.612857700218196,35.988706820194864,17.958381124037359,24.4,97.849743643402746,0.2,51.379509936330315,28.129922132591606]
["Children from remote areas"]
[null,"Child care services"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 0–12 years",null,null,"no.",1055.2220754320999,"na",206,"na",320,"na","na","na",1581.2220754320999]
[null,null,"Representation in child care services",null,null,"%",0.89633946374306928,"na",15.214180206794683,"na",11.188811188811188,"na","..","na",1.2926008647831009]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 0–12 years in the community, 2011",null,null,"%",0.63651840522640601,7.1114723287532072E-2,3.6229935598841148,7.7,4.0999999999999996,1.9621922081780703,"..",48.48836939093254,2.7208545299038693]
[null,"Preschool programs"]
[null,null,"Number of children aged 3–5 years",null,null,"no.",795,48,2006,2548,956,138,"..",1795,8286]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs",null,null,"%",0.74379701358482087,5.9444196760291272E-2,3.4396433470507546,7.5975787935712784,3.9874869655891558,1.9890458345344479,"..",48.252688172043015,2.5893102672433188]
[null,null,"Number of children in the YBFS",null,null,"no.",455,"np",1744,2439,740,119,"..",1462,6959]
[null,null,"Representation in preschool programs in the YBFS",null,null,"%",0.72516894045645797,"np",3.3028426415165804,7.611646849545922,3.9284387110474066,1.7905507071922961,"..",45.375543140906274,2.7274900741936876]
[null,null,"Representation of children aged 3–5 years in the community, 2011",null,null,"%",0.63929757088692563,6.4062116169181782E-2,3.7660540301151464,7.9,3.9,2.024693941613477,"..",48.224966235770786,2.7560442329815258]
[]
["YBFS = year before full time schooling. "]
["(a)","Preschool data for children from non-English speaking backgrounds and children with disability are from State and Territory governments. Preschool data for Indigenous children and children from regional and remote areas are from the National ECEC Collection published by ABS in Preschool Education, Australia, 2012. Due to the different data sources for preschool data for special needs groups, caution should be used when making comparisons across special needs groups. All child care data are from State and Territory governments and represent children from special needs groups in State and Territory government funded and/or provided child care. "]
["(b)","Data for children from non-English speaking backgrounds and children with disability in a preschool program  include only State and Territory government funded or provided preschool services. Data on preschool programs for Indigenous children and children from regional and remote areas include preschool programs as defined by the scope of the National ECEC Collection. This means preschool programs are included irrespective of the type of institution that provides it or whether it is government funded or privately provided. Regional and remote areas are based upon the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2011."]
["(c)","Data on children enrolled in preschool programs represent 2012. All child care data represent 2012-13. "]
["(d)","Children in preschool programs includes children aged 3–5 years on 1 July 2012. However, some 3 year old children may not be included in the National ECEC Collection and therefore data may represent an under count. Children in preschool in the YBFS include children aged 4 and 5 years on 1 July 2012, but exclude children aged 5 years old who were enrolled in preschool in the previous year as a 4 year old. Children in child care include children aged 0–12 years. "]
["(e)","Data for representation in the community are estimated from the ABS 2011 Census of Population and Housing, except for children with disability and Indigenous children. Data for the representation of children with disability in the community were obtained from ABS Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia, 2009, while Indigenous data are from the ABS Experimental Estimates and Projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Population, 1991-2021. Due to the various data sources used in different years caution should be used when making comparisons. "]
["(f)","Data for children in child care from a non-English speaking background and children with disability were not collected for 2012-13. The data have been estimated based on the drop in funded child care services between 2011-12 and 2012-13. The number of State/Territory funded child care services has fallen slightly due to the closed nature of the funding program since 2010-11. Not all children undertaking a preschool program in a long day care setting in NSW are captured in the relevant data collections, resulting in an undercount for NSW. "]
["(g)","Victorian data for children from NESB and with disability in preschool programs only include the 3 year old children who have been approved to attend funded 4 year old kindergarten programs, and so do not include children in programs for 3 year olds. Victorian data for children from NESB and with disability are reported as at 30 June 2012."]
["(h)","Episode, rather than child level data were used for Queensland Indigenous children and children from regional and remote areas. These data are included in the national total."]
["(i)","Indigenous children and children from regional and remote area preschool totals for the ACT exclude data for preschools within independent schools, which were unavailable for 2012."]
["(j)","Preschool data for children from non-English speaking backgrounds and children with disability in the NT include some children aged greater than 5 years. "]
["(k)","Data for Australia for children from non-English speaking backgrounds and children with disability, in preschool, are the total of the sum of the states and territories for which data are available, and should not be interpreted as national data."]
["(l)","Data exclude innovative or flexible services that receive direct funding from the Australian Government and are targeted towards children from these groups. Data for Tasmania only include children enrolled in preschool in non-government school settings. "]
["(m)","Data on children with a disability are not directly comparable because the definition of disability varies across jurisdictions. "]
[null,"na Not available. .. Not applicable. np Not published.  "]
["Source:",null,null,"ABS (unpublished) Preschool Education, Australia, 2012, Cat. no. 4240.0;  2011 Census of Population and Housing; Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2009, Cat. no. 4430.0, and Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 1991 to 2021 (Series B), Cat. no. 3238.0, Canberra; State and Territory governments (unpublished)."]

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["Table 3A.18",null,null,null,"Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area, national only, 2012 (a), (b), (c) "]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,"Unit","Major cities","Inner/outer regional areas","Remote/very remote areas"]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years as at 1 July 2012, who are enrolled in a preschool program in the YBFS",null,null,null,null,null,"no. ",3146,4953,2666]
["Projected number of Indigenous children aged 4 years (d) ",null,null,null,null,null,"no. ",4501,6246,3016]
["Proportion of Indigenous children who are enrolled in a preschool program in the YBFS",null,null,null,null,null,"%",69.895578760275484,79.298751200768493,88.395225464190986]
[]
["YBFS = year before full time schooling. "]
["(a)","Year before full time schooling data include children aged 4 or 5 years on 1 July, except children aged 5 years old who were enrolled in preschool in the previous year as a 4 year old."]
["(b)","Currently, not all records in the National ECEC Collection are produced at the unique child level. This means that there is a risk of duplicate counts across services and sectors for these records. It is also possible for a child to be enrolled in preschool for more than 1 year, meaning that duplication may also occur across time.  "]
["(c)","Remoteness area is based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistical Geography Classification (ASGC) 2006. Where a child's geography was unavailable the geography of the service provider was used to determine remoteness area."]
["(d)","ABS Indigenous ERP by age and remoteness area is based on (unpublished) 2006 Census of Population and Housing projections."]
["Source:",null,null,"ABS (unpublished) Preschool Education, Australia, 2012 (Cat. no. 4240.0); Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 1991 to 2021 (Cat. no. 3238.0).\n"]

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["Table 3A.19",null,null,null,"Indigenous children enrolled in a preschool program, 2012 (a) "]
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["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years enrolled in a preschool program, by sector"]
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[null,"Non-government preschool",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1724,532,821,271,12,77,0,82,3519]
[null,"Total preschool (f)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",2379,676,1322,2050,693,502,119,1227,8968]
[null,"Long day care with a preschool program (g)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",835,268,914,28,175,13,24,12,2269]
[null,"Total ",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",3214,944,2236,2078,868,515,143,1239,11237]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years enrolled in a preschool program, by remoteness area (h) "]
[null,"Major cities of Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1068,354,548,728,419,"..",129,"..",3246]
[null,"Inner/outer regional Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1908,567,1009,575,310,499,14,318,5200]
[null,"Remote/very remote Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",238,0,679,775,139,16,"..",921,2768]
[null,"Total (i)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",3214,944,2236,2078,868,515,143,1239,11237]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area (h), (j)"]
[null,"Major cities of Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",975,354,548,728,416,"..",125,"..",3146]
[null,"Inner/outer regional Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1703,539,1009,574,310,496,11,311,4953]
[null,"Remote/very remote Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",220,0,679,765,132,16,"..",854,2666]
[null,"Total (k)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",2898,883,2236,2066,857,512,136,1165,10753]
[]
["(a) ","Data include Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years on 1 July 2012."]
["(b) ","Not all children undertaking a preschool program in a long day care setting in NSW are captured in the collection, resulting in an undercount for NSW. "]
["(c) ","Child level enrolment data for Queensland are not available. Episode of enrolment data were used instead for Queensland. Only one episode of enrolment count is available so data are the same for both all 4 and 5 year old children and children in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area. An episode is a record of enrolment at a preschool program. Children may be enrolled in more than one preschool program so will be counted more than once in episode counts where they are enrolled in more than one preschool program. These data are included in the national total. "]
["(d) ","Totals for the ACT exclude data for preschools within independent schools, which were unavailable in 2012. "]
["(e)","Data for Australia are the total of the sum of the states and territories for which data are available."]
["(f)","Total preschool may not equal the sum of the components due to the inclusion of multiple preschools (except for Queensland) and use of next best available (episode level) data where cells are not published by ABS (affects government preschool for Victoria and non-government preschool for WA and Tasmania)."]
["(g)","Includes long day care with a preschool and long day care with a preschool program and preschool."]
["(h)","Remoteness area is based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistical Geography Classification (ASGC) 2006. Where a child's geography was unavailable the geography of the service provider was used to determine remoteness area."]
["(i)","Total data will not equal the sum of components for Victoria and Australia because some cells have used the next best available (year before full time schooling level) data where they were not published by ABS. "]
["(j)","Year before full time schooling data include children aged 4 or 5 years on 1 July, except children aged 5 years old who were enrolled in preschool in the previous year as a 4 year old."]
["(k)","Total data will not equal the sum of components for Victoria, WA, SA and Australia because some cells have used unpublished or next best available (child or episode level) where data were not published by ABS. "]
[null,".. Not applicable. – Nil or rounded to zero. "]
["Source:",null,null,"ABS (unpublished) Preschool Education, Australia, 2012, Cat. no. 4240.0, Canberra."]

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["Table 3A.25",null,null,null,"Children absent from non-government preschools, 2012 (a), (b), (c)"]
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["Number of children enrolled"]
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[null,"All children",null,null,null,"no.",55775,84747,19441,9021,4079,1626,710,278,175677]
["Number of children absent"]
[null,"Indigenous children",null,null,null,"no.",878,367,299,110,102,14,10,74,1854]
[null,"Non-Indigenous children (d)",null,null,null,"no.",7569,15377,3008,1627,732,287,87,57,28744]
[null,"All children",null,null,null,"no.",8447,15744,3307,1737,834,301,97,131,30598]
["Proportion of children absent"]
[null,"Indigenous children",null,null,null,"%",26.216781128695132,31.260647359454858,31.606765327695562,42.96875,37.638376383763841,17.073170731707318,50,60.162601626016269,29.802282591223278]
[null,"Non-Indigenous children (d)",null,null,null,"%",14.437492847060618,18.399483086642814,16.263855095971884,18.562464346833998,19.222689075630253,18.588082901554404,12.608695652173912,36.774193548387096,16.962515343215941]
[null,"All children",null,null,null,"%",15.144778126400718,18.577648766328011,17.010441849699092,19.255071499833718,20.446187791125276,18.511685116851169,13.661971830985916,47.122302158273385,17.41719177809275]
["Non-government preschools"]
[null,"Number of non-government preschools",null,null,null,"no.",864,1706,417,242,72,54,14,10,3379]
[null,"Proportion of all preschools (e)",null,null,null,"%",89.719626168224295,100,94.13092550790067,27.531285551763368,16.363636363636363,25.233644859813083,14.736842105263156,7.3529411764705888,69.298605414273993]
[]
["(a)","Data on attendance are limited to non-government preschools, and exclude government preschools. "]
["(b)","Attendance measured during the census week of 30 July to 3 August 2012. Children are counted as absent if they miss one or more of the sessions that they were enrolled in during this week. Absences due to illness may be higher during winter than at other times of the year."]
["(c) ","Preschool attendance is not compulsory."]
["(d)","Data for non-Indigenous children are derived from data on Indigenous children and all children. "]
["(e)","Non-government preschools as a proportion of all preschools (which includes government and non-government preschools) approached in the National Preschool Census. Preschool attendance data for jurisdictions with a small proportion of non-government preschools should be interpreted with care."]
["Source:",null,null,"Department of Education (unpublished) National Preschool Census 2012."]

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["Table 3A.26",null,null,null,"Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years attending a preschool program in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area, national only, 2012 (a), (b), (c) "]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,"Unit","Major cities ","Inner/outer regional areas ","Remote/very remote areas"]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years as at 1 July 2012, who are attending a preschool program in the YBFS ",null,null,null,null,null,"no. ",3031,4643,2337]
["Projected number of Indigenous children aged 4 years (d) ",null,null,null,null,null,"no. ",4501,6246,3016]
["Proportion of Indigenous children who are attending a preschool program in the YBFS",null,null,null,null,null,"%",67.340590979782263,74.335574767851426,77.486737400530501]
[]
["YBFS = year before full time schooling. "]
["(a)","Year before full time schooling data include children aged 4 or 5 years on 1 July, except children aged 5 years old who attended preschool in the previous year as a 4 year old."]
["(b)","Currently, not all records in the National ECEC Collection are produced at the unique child level. This means that there is a risk of duplicate counts across services and sectors for these records. It is also possible for a child to be attending preschool for more than 1 year, meaning that duplication may also occur across time.  "]
["(c)","Remoteness area is based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistical Geography Classification (ASGC) 2006. Where a child's geography was unavailable the geography of the service provider was used to determine remoteness area."]
["(d)","ABS Indigenous ERP by age and remoteness area is based on (unpublished) 2006 Census of Population and Housing projections."]
["Source:",null,null,"ABS (unpublished) Preschool Education, Australia, 2012 (Cat. no. 4240.0); Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 1991 to 2021 (Cat. no. 3238.0).\n"]

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["Table 3A.27",null,null,null,"Indigenous children attending a preschool program, 2012 (a) "]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"Unit","NSW (b) ","Vic","Qld (c)","WA ","SA","Tas","ACT (d)","NT","Aust (e) "]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years attending a preschool program, by sector"]
[null,"Government preschool",null,null,null,null,null,"no.","np","np",434,1779,642,412,84,890,4241]
[null,"Non-government preschool",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1621,467,772,"np",12,"np",0,76,2948]
[null,"Total preschool (f)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",2217,599,1206,2050,666,"np",115,972,7825]
[null,"Long day care with a preschool program",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",816,253,828,28,169,"np",24,12,2130]
[null,"Total (g)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",3033,852,2034,2078,835,505,139,984,10460]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years attending a preschool program, by remoteness area (h) "]
[null,"Major cities of Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1020,353,512,728,409,"..",125,"..",3147]
[null,"Inner/outer regional Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1799,499,934,575,294,486,14,288,4889]
[null,"Remote/very remote Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",214,0,588,775,132,16,"..",696,2421]
[null,"Total (g)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",3033,852,2034,2078,835,505,139,984,10460]
["Number of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years attending a preschool program in the year before full time schooling, by remoteness area (h), (i)"]
[null,"Major cities of Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",930,335,512,727,406,"..",121,"..",3031]
[null,"Inner/outer regional Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",1602,461,934,574,294,486,11,281,4643]
[null,"Remote/very remote Australia",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",198,0,588,765,126,16,"..",644,2337]
[null,"Total (j)",null,null,null,null,null,"no.",2730,796,2034,2066,825,502,132,925,10010]
[]
["(a) ","Data include Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years on 1 July 2012."]
["(b) ","Not all children undertaking a preschool program in a long day care setting in NSW are captured in the collection, resulting in an undercount for NSW. "]
["(c) ","Child level attendance data for Queensland are not available and episode of attendance data were used instead. Only one episode of attendance count is available by remoteness area so data for all 4 and 5 year old children and children in the year before full time schooling will be identical. An episode is a record of attendance at a preschool program. Children may attend more than one preschool program so will be counted more than once in episode counts where they attend more than one preschool program. These data are included in the national total. "]
["(d)","Totals for the ACT exclude data for preschools within independent schools, which was unavailable in 2012. "]
["(e)","Data for Australia are the total of the sum of the states and territories for which data are available."]
["(f) ","Total preschool includes multiple preschools. Not applicable for episode data used for Queensland."]
["(g)","Total data will not equal the sum of the components where there are np's. Total data will not equal the sum of components by remoteness area for Tasmania and Australia because some inner/outer regional Australia and remote/very remote Australia cells have used the next best available (year before full time schooling level) data where they were not published by ABS. "]
["(h)","Remoteness area is based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Statistical Geography Classification (ASGC) 2006. Where a child's geography was unavailable the geography of the service provider was used to determine remoteness area."]
["(i)","Year before full time schooling data include children aged 4 or 5 years on 1 July, except children aged 5 years old who attended preschool in the previous year as a 4 year old."]
["(j)","Total data may not equal the sum of components for SA, Tasmania and Australia due to unpublished data being used for inner/outer regional Australia and remote/very remote Australia. "]
[null,".. Not applicable. – Nil or rounded to zero. np Not published. "]
["Source:",null,null,"ABS (unpublished) Preschool Education, Australia, 2012, Cat. no. 4240.0, Canberra."]