| Description |
xvi, 124 pages ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Description of project -- CP census -- ABS child care survey -- South Australian data collection -- Victorian data collection -- Other data collections -- Structure of the report -- ch. 2. Identification of organisational units -- 2.1. Proposed definitions -- ch. 3. Scope of collections -- 3.1. Population of service providers included -- 3.2. Child population included -- 3.3. Worker population included -- ch. 4. Definitions: service types and school -- 4.1. Formal services and informal care -- 4.2. School -- 4.3. Preschool -- 4.4. Long day care -- 4.5. Long day care centres -- 4.6. Family day care services -- 4.7. Occasional care services -- 4.8. Outside school hours care services (before/after school care and vacation care) -- 4.9. Other services types -- ch. 5. Data items: population-based characteristics -- 5.1. Age of child -- 5.2. Age of worker -- 5.3. Sex of child -- 5.4. Sex of worker -- 5.5. Children/parents with a disability -- 5.6. Child referred because at risk of abuse and neglect -- 5.7. Child's indigenous status -- 5.8. Worker's indigenous status -- 5.9. Child's cultural background -- 5.10. Worker's cultural background -- 5.11. Family type -- 5.12. Parent's labour force status -- 5.13. Family income -- 5.14. Geographic location -- ch. 6. Data items: other characteristics of children and families -- 6.1. Child's school attendance -- 6.2. Child's use of other children's services -- 6.3. Receipt of fee relief -- 6.4. Time spent in care/attendance -- ch. 7. Data items: other characteristics of workers -- 7.1. Employment status -- 7.2. Type of work performed/job description -- 7.3. Hours worked -- 7.4. Qualifications -- 7.5. In-service training -- ch. 8. Data items: characteristics of service providers -- 8.1. Availability of service (time) -- 8.2. Number of places/places by age -- 8.3. Utilisation/vacancies -- 8.4. Sponsor -- 8.5. Type of service delivery setting -- 8.6. Linkages with other service types -- 8.7. Fees charged.er profile |
| Summary |
This paper explores issues associated with the development of a National Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Children's Services, defined as an agreed core set of data items, definitions, classifications and standards to be collected and reported on across the children's services industry at a national level. This paper examines in detail four data collections relating to children's services - the FaCS Childcare Program (CP) 1997 Census, the 1996 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Child Care Survey and the 1997 Victorian and South Australian children's services data collections. In addition to these four collections, the paper examines other data collections or definitions where relevant, in order to illustrate other approaches to the issues under discussion. These include the 1998 New South Wales and Queensland children's services data collection, the 1998 children's services data collection manual for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision (administered by the Productivity Commission), the 1996 ABS Census of Population and Housing and the national health and community services data dictionaries published by the AIHW.ion programs |
| Analysis |
Charges |
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Child day care |
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Child welfare |
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Community care |
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Community services |
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Data collection |
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Databases |
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Federal issue |
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Interstate comparisons |
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Prices and charges |
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State issue |
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Welfare administration |
| Notes |
"AIHW cat. no. CFS 3" |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 122-124 |
| Notes |
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2000 |
| Subject |
Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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Child welfare -- Research -- Australia -- Information resources.
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Child welfare -- Research -- Australia -- Statistical services.
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Child welfare -- Research -- Australia.
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Child welfare -- Australia -- Statistical methods.
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Child welfare -- Australia -- Statistical services.
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Child welfare -- Australia.
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Children -- Services for -- Research -- Australia.
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Children -- Services for -- Australia -- Information resources.
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Children -- Services for -- Australia -- Statistical methods.
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Children -- Services for -- Australia -- Statistical services.
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Children -- Services for -- Australia.
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Social surveys -- Australia -- Methodology.
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| Author |
Moyle, Helen.
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Australia. Department of Family and Community Services.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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| LC no. |
00364611 |
| ISBN |
1740240405 |
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