Please list any other organisations you have collaborated with on this submission.
Who you have consulted with
- LG Interface Social and Community Planning Network
- Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Health and Wellbeing Committee
What is your submission about?
Please provide a brief summary of your submission
Topic name
The Wyndham City Council Research and Statistics team prepared a number of submissions in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. This submission proposes a variation to an an existing education and training variable. In the existing indicator for type of educational institution attending (TYPP), please include an option for ‘home schooling’.
Choose your area of interest
Please select one item
(Required)
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
Other topic
Topics on Education and training
Choose one or more of the following topics that relates to your submission
Please select all that apply
Ticked
Attendance at an educational institution
Engagement in employment, education and training
Highest year of schooling
Highest non-school qualification
Other/unknown
Assessment Criteria 1
1.
This topic is of current national importance.
National Importance
A complete picture of how many people attend school and how they do so is missing as long as the Census does not identify people who are being home schooled. Gaining an understanding of who is home schooled and where they live would contribute to building a complete picture.
Assessment Criteria 2
2.
There is a need for data from a Census of the whole population.
For whole population
This is suspected to be a small group. Drawing accurate estimates from a survey would be difficult and not informative due to the margin of error involved.
Assessment Criteria 3
3.
The topic can be accurately collected in a form which the household completes themselves.
Easy to answer
The question of what type of educational institution people are attending is already in the Census. A simple expansion of the response options should not pose additional issues.
Assessment Criteria 4
4.
The topic would be acceptable to Census respondents.
Acceptable
This question is not more sensitive than any of the other education questions the Census already asks.
Assessment Criteria 5
5.
The topic can be collected efficiently.
Collected efficiently
The response options would be increased by 1. This is not a burden on the household or the processing of Census forms.
Assessment Criteria 6
6.
There is likely to be a continuing need for data on this topic in the following Census.
Continuing need
Time series data will reveal whether home schooling is increasing or decreasing, and whether there are particular areas where it is becoming more/less prevalent. This may inform national and State-level policies around schools.
Assessment Criteria 7
7.
There are no other alternative data sources or solutions that could meet the topic need.
No alternatives
No known publicly available sources for this data exist.