Table 2.
Characteristics of survey participants by child-care service type among a sample of licensed child-care services in the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato regions of New Zealand, 2014
| Type of service | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service characteristic | Private day care | Community day care | Public kindergarten | Playcentre |
| Proportion of total enrolments in the sector (%) | 40 | 22 | 17 | 7 |
| Average number of hours per week children attend† | 25 | 25 | 17 | 5 |
| Mean roll size | 53 | 52 | 61 | 34 |
| Mean NZDep2006 decile (1=low, 10=high)‡ | 6·1 | 6·2 | 6·5 | 5·1 |
| Proportion with over 90 % of staff fully qualified (%) | 45·1 | 53·1 | 79·6 | 0 |
| Average ratio of adults/teachers to 3–4-year-old children | 1:8 | 1:8 | 1:10 | 1:3 |
| Proportion of services with 50 % or more Māori and Pasifika students enrolled (%) | 17·9 | 36·7 | 32·7 | 0·7 |
| Management/governance structure | Small businesses, companies or corporations | Not-for-profit organisations, e.g. churches, councils, hospitals or universities | Charitable trusts | Parent/family cooperatives |
†
Source is the Ministry of Education’s Annual ECE Census Report 2013, which conflates private and community day-care, so the 25 h/week is an average across the two types of service.
‡
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.