Statistical presentation

Data description

This publication presents the accumulated number of children and employees with care-taking roles in private daycare facilities. Both children and employees are calculated as full-time units. The statistics were first published in 2022 with data for 2021.

The data regarding children are only included in the calculations if the child is situated in the same municipality as the daycare facility. This means that children may be included for part of the year but not the entire year if they move to another municipality during the reporting period. Therefore, the calculation does not take account for the actual number of children as there is a small subset of children that are enrolled in another municipality than the one they live in.

The calculated full-time units (full-time equivalents) presents a child or an employee who is present in the daycare unit full time for the whole year as one full-time unit. A child or employee attending half time or half of the year full time is then calculated as 0.5 full-time units.

The publication only includes data on daycare units defined under the Danish law on daycare, section 2: "Daycare for children under school age", paragraph 19.5 and 20. This means that the daycare units are limited to private units for children until they start school. This covers private day nurseries, kindergartens and grouped institutions.

The publication covers all municipalities in Denmark. The employees included are divided into categories regarding their vocational category and educational background. The children included are divided into categories regarding their age and the type of daycare they attend. Management personnel without care-taking responsibilities are not included in the calculation. Management personnel with care-taking responsibilities are included in the calculation.

Classification system

Category of child care (type of institution): Daycare institution for ages 0-2 and daycare institution for ages 3-5.

Job title: Early childhood educater, childhool manager, childcare worker, early childcare educator assistent, Early childcare ecucator assistant student, early childcare educator student.

Education categories: Pedagogical education, pedagogical assistant education, other pedagogical education, pedagogical student, pedagogical work assistant student. The statistics are geographically divided by municipality.

Sector coverage

The childcare sector up to school entry.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Nursery: A daycare institution where children are enrolled from 0 years until they start kindergarten.

Kindergarten: A daycare institution where children are enrolled from when they progress from the nursery until they start school.

Age-integrated institution: A daycare institution where children are enrolled from 0 years until they start school.

Employment period in a daycare institution: The period an employee is employed in a daycare institution, with a set number of hours per week. Changes in weekly hours, education or position will cause a new employment period.

Enrollment period in a daycare institution: The period a child is enrolled at a daycare institution, with a set number of hours per week. Changes in weekly hours will cause a new enrollment period.

Kindergarten progression age: The age children enrolled in age-integrated institutions are moved from nursery to kindergarten. The age is set by the municipality.

Statistical unit

Children and staff calculated as full-time equivalents.

Statistical population

The population consists of children enrolled in childcare at private daycare institutions from 0 years of age until school entry, during periods when the municipality of childcare and the municipality of residence are the same, as well as pedagogical staff responsible for the care of the enrolled children. Both children and staff are measured in full-time equivalents.

Reference area

Denmark

Time coverage

The statistics cover the reporting year 2023.

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

Number.

Reference period

Calendar year.

Frequency of dissemination

Yearly.

Legal acts and other agreements

To be implemented

Cost and burden

Most of the data for the statistics is provided automatically through a system-to-system solution, ensuring that the reporting burden is minimal. For a smaller group of private daycare institutions, where the staff are not paid through an external payroll system with an agreement for automated data delivery to Statistics Denmark, manual reporting is done via the Statistics Denmark website.

Comment

Further information can be found on the statistics' topic page on Childcare or can be obtained by contacting Statistics Denmark.