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

• Full-time and part-time employment: women and men Full-time and part-time employment: women and men
• Female with children under 6 years full-time and part-time

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

• Licensing and regulatory regimes for staff
• Staff profiles, recruiting and retaining Staff profiles, recruiting and retaining 
• Training (initial and further) Training (initial and further)
• Qualifications
• Working conditions

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