General information | Context and parents' situation | Governance
Integration of education and care | Costs and financing
Access and provision | Data collection and research
Workforce supply, qualifications and development
Curriculum and pedagogy | Parent and community involvement
Recent developments (in policy and research) since 2005
Child outcomes
1. General information
1.1. Demography
- Size of population (xls)
- Fertility rate (pdf)
- Size of population of children under 6 years (xls)
1.2. Socio-economic information
- GDP per capita in US$ in 2007 (xls)
- Child poverty rate (xls)
1.3. The ECEC system
- Major service type and duration
- Compulsory school starting age
- Legal entitlement to a free ECEC service
- Share of ECEC provision in primary schools
2. Context
2.1 Labour force participation
2.2 Parental leave
- Availability of paid leave
- Maternity and paternity leave (pdf) (xls)
3. Governance
- Structure holding main responsibility ECEC (xls)
4. Integration of education and care
- Integration of governance and finance structures
- Integration of staff qualifications
- Approaches/strategies to implement integration
- Actors involved in implementing integration
- Evaluations, evidence on integration
5. Costs and financing
- Social expenditure by age
- Public expenditure on ECEC (pdf) (xls)
- Funding of services for children aged 0-6
- Private expenditure per child (expenses by parents, employer contributions) (pdf)
- Estimated costs of an ECEC programme (full-day; half-day) per child
- Availability of subsidies to providers/to parents by child
- Ways of public spending (targeted/general, to individuals/providers, through which level of government)
- Educational expenditure: Pre-primary education Educational expenditure: Pre-primary education
- Funding of pre-primary schools Funding of pre-primary schools
6. Access and provision
- Regulations and provision of opening hours
- Share of ECEC provision through primary schools
- Child-staff ratio
- Licensing requirements and regulatory frameworks for providers
- Minimum standards for provider facilities, minimum space per child
- Targeted provision (e.g. children from low income families, disadvantaged areas of living, etc.)
- Enrolment of children by age and hours per week (pdf) (xls)
7. Data collection and research
- Monitoring mechanisms
- Evaluation of ECEC data
- ECEC research centre
8. Workforce supply, qualifications and development
9. Curriculum and pedagogy
- Curriculum and pedagogy from age 3-6
- Curriculum, if any, and pedagogy under 3
10. Parent and community involvement
11. Recent developments (in policy and research) since 2005
- New policy or change of policy, implementation of policies, evaluation of policies such as case studies and recent research findings
12. Child outcomes
- Learning and cognitive outcomes
- Child well-being