This submission suggests that additional information relating to education in early childhood years should be collected via the Census.
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Population
Sex and gender
Households and families
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Income and work
Unpaid work and care
Ticked
Education and training
Disability and carers
Housing
Location
Transport
Cultural diversity
Religion
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Topics on Education and training
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Attendance at an educational institution
Engagement in employment, education and training
Highest year of schooling
Highest non-school qualification
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Other/unknown
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Child care and pre school and other early learning
Assessment Criteria 1
1.
This topic is of current national importance.
National Importance
It would be useful to include a question about persons within a household attending childcare, preschool or undertaking other forms of early childhood learning. This data is useful at both local and National levels.
In addition, and as also stated under the topic of population, it would be useful for age related data about children to be broken down into categories that correlate with childcare centre/preschool and school age groups. The suggested age breakdown for children is: 0-5 years, 5-12 years, 12-18 years.
Assessment Criteria 2
2.
There is a need for data from a Census of the whole population.
For whole population
There is a need for data relating to childcare, preschool and other early learning attendance at both local and National levels.
Assessment Criteria 3
3.
The topic can be accurately collected in a form which the household completes themselves.
Easy to answer
It is considered that it would be relatively easy to collect this data via the Census.
Assessment Criteria 4
4.
The topic would be acceptable to Census respondents.
Acceptable
The topic is not likely to be considered intrusive, offensive or controversial.
Assessment Criteria 5
5.
The topic can be collected efficiently.
Collected efficiently
It is assumed that the data would be relatively easy to collect and process.
Assessment Criteria 6
6.
There is likely to be a continuing need for data on this topic in the following Census.
Continuing need
There is a need for time series data on this topic and it is likely to remain relevant in the future.
Assessment Criteria 7
7.
There are no other alternative data sources or solutions that could meet the topic need.
No alternatives
It is not known by the author of this submission whether or not comprehensive, continuous, spatially based data on this topic is collected via other sources.