Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | PI 10–Proportion of Indigenous children who are enrolled in (and attending, where possible to measure) a preschool program in the year before formal schooling |
METEOR identifier: | 663195 |
Registration status: | Indigenous, Superseded 06/06/2017 |
Description: | There are two measures for this indicator: a) The proportion of children enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling. b) The proportion of children attending a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling. |
Rationale: | Indigenous children generally have a lower level of participation in early childhood education than non-Indigenous children. Without preschool learning opportunities, Indigenous children are likely to be behind from their first year of full-time schooling. This is a key indicator in measuring the Closing the Gap target of ensuring that 95 per cent of all Indigenous 4 year olds are enrolled in early childhood education by 2025. |
Indicator set: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2017) Indigenous, Superseded 06/06/2017 |
Outcome area: | |
Data quality statement: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-Proportion of Indigenous children who are enrolled in (and attending, where possible to measure) a preschool program in the year before formal schooling, 2015-16; Quality Statement Indigenous, Superseded 07/02/2018 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The proportion of children who are enrolled in, and attending, a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling. Proportions are calculated for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. Presentation: Percentage. |
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Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Measure (a): The number of children who are enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling. Measure (b): The number of children attending a preschool program (for at least one hour in the reference period) in the year before full-time schooling. The numerator is obtained by summing all children who reported for Measure (a), a ‘Yes’ response against the data element ‘Child—early childhood education program enrolment indicator, yes/no code N’, and for Measure (b), a ‘Yes’ response against the data element ‘Child—early childhood education program attendance indicator, yes/no code N’. |
Numerator data elements: |
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Denominator: | Measure (a): The estimated number of children in the year before full-time schooling (based on adjusted potential population* age in months relating to school starting provisions in each state/territory). *Potential population:
Measure (b): The number of children enrolled in a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling. |
Denominator data elements: |
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Disaggregation: | Current Period (2015): Measure a):
Measure b):
Time series—not applicable (first time these Measures have been reported). |
Comments: | Collection of data involves alignment of the numerator and denominator by:
This performance indicator should use child level data excluding repeaters where available, calculated using a Statistical Linkage Key (SLK) which provides a unique identifier for the majority of children. Currently, some records in the National Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Collection are produced from aggregate data rather than at the unique child level. Where no child level data are available, counts of preschool episodes are to be used. Where available, the count of ‘Children in a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling’ (YBFS) is to be used. This count includes all children aged 4 and 5 years who were enrolled in and attended an early childhood education program in the YBFS for the first time in the collection year (that is, excluding 5 year old children who were enrolled in and attended more than one year of a preschool program). Where YBFS is not available, the count of ‘Children in a preschool program in the calendar year’ (‘Children in 2015’) is to be used. This count includes all children aged 4 and 5 years old that were enrolled in and attended a preschool program in the collection year. A child is included in this count regardless of whether they also attended a preschool program in a previous year (that is, including children who were enrolled in and attended more than one year of a preschool program). For more information on creating unique child records from child episode data, including how to treat multiple enrolments and repeat enrolments over time, see Chapter 3 of ABS 2013. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | NN[N].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Socioeconomic Factors |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term. Further improvements are required to provide comparable YBFS data for all states and territories. Further work on the quality of attendance data will improve the quality of these data. Further work is required to provide appropriate sub-state population counts for the denominator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Steward: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement Performance Information Management Group |
Reference documents: | ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2013. National Early Childhood Education and Care Collection: Concepts, Sources and Methods. ABS Cat. no. 4240.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 10-The proportion of Indigenous children aged 4 and 5 years who are enrolled in, and attending, a preschool program in the year before full-time schooling, by remoteness, 2015 Indigenous, Superseded 18/11/2015 See also National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2017) Indigenous, Superseded 06/06/2017 |