Table 1.
Overview of survey respondent characteristics compared with the total survey frame among a sample of licensed child-care services in the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato regions of New Zealand, 2014
| Survey respondents (n 257) | Survey frame‡ (n 847) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service characteristic† | n | Column % | n | Column % | P value§ |
| Type of child-care service|| | |||||
| Private day care | 91 | 35·4 | 398 | 47·0 | |
| Community day care | 81 | 31·5 | 225 | 26·6 | |
| Public kindergarten | 49 | 19·1 | 126 | 14·9 | |
| Playcentre | 31 | 12·1 | 67 | 7·9 | |
| Kōhanga Reo | 5 | 1·9 | 31 | 3·7 | <0·01 |
| Neighbourhood deprivation¶ | |||||
| Low (NZDep2006 deciles 1–3) | 49 | 19·2 | 165 | 19·5 | |
| Medium (NZDep2006 deciles 4–7) | 116 | 45·5 | 316 | 37·3 | |
| High (NZDep2006 deciles 8–10) | 90 | 35·3 | 364 | 43·0 | |
| Missing | 2 | 0·8 | 2 | 0·2 | 0·05 |
| District Health Board region | |||||
| Auckland | 99 | 38·5 | 290 | 34·2 | |
| Counties Manukau | 106 | 41·3 | 346 | 40·9 | |
| Waikato | 52 | 20·5 | 211 | 24·9 | 0·24 |
| Total roll size | |||||
| 1–29 | 38 | 15·6 | 132 | 15·6 | |
| 30–49 | 93 | 38·3 | 288 | 34·0 | |
| 50–69 | 71 | 29·2 | 229 | 27·0 | |
| ≥70 | 41 | 16·9 | 156 | 18·4 | |
| Missing | 14 | 5·4 | 42 | 5·0 | 0·79 |
| Proportion of Māori and Pasifika students enrolled | |||||
| Less than 9·9 % | 63 | 26·3 | 193 | 22·8 | |
| 10–29·9 % | 83 | 34·6 | 263 | 31·6 | |
| 30–49·9 % | 29 | 12·1 | 101 | 11·9 | |
| 50 % or more | 65 | 27·1 | 248 | 29·3 | |
| Missing | 7 | 2·7 | 42 | 5·0 | 0·69 |
Source is the Ministry of Education database Early Childhood Education Services (August 2013).
All licensed child-care services in the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato District Health Board regions, excluding infant and toddler centres, home-based services, playgroups, unlicensed crèches and hospital-based services (for patients).
Assessing the null hypothesis that there is no difference in distributions between the survey respondents and the survey frame for each service characteristic; χ 2 test.
See Table 2 for more information on the characteristics of different service types.
The New Zealand Index of Neighbourhood Deprivation (NZDep2006) is a composite measure of socio-economic indicators from neighbourhood areas in the 2006 census( 24 ). Assigned based on the census meshblock (geographical location) of the child-care service.