--- title: Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne, 2012-13 to 2015-16 resource: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/ publisher: Department of Education licence: CC BY 3.0 AU licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ version: 2017-07-26 rows: 4042 fields: 9 source: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9923c11b-aa7e-4bb6-afd9-b17674347fdd/resource/5b6f578d-1d1e-4f97-a285-706dafdb9cbc/download/child-care-administrative-data.csv source_sha256: 498a0589b31ef99cdd47ba9d45f588680a45a8e87865a84b6d85a33a8d30c735 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne, 2012-13 to 2015-16 Children, services and the mean hourly fee of Child Care Benefit approved long day care and outside school hours care in each area of Greater Sydney and Greater Melbourne, 2012-13 to 2015-16. Published by Department of Education under CC BY 3.0 AU and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Education has not endorsed this site. Also called: Child Care Administrative Data, Long day care fees by SA3, Before and after school care fees Sydney Melbourne, Child Care Benefit approved services by area. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.csv (307 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.xlsx (161 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.json (920 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.parquet (26 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.sqlite (434 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.ndjson (915 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.arrow (93 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.csv.gz (28 KB) Pinned version 2017-07-26: `https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/data.`. 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A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `sa3_code_2011` | string | SA3_code_2011 | | | `sa3_name_2011` | string | SA3_name_2011 | | | `financial_year` | string | FY | The department's code for the financial year, FY201213 for 2012-13. | | `service_type` | string | Servicetype | | | `child_age` | string | child_age | | | `child_count` | integer | child_count | | | `service_count` | integer | service_count | | | `fee_hr_mean` | string | fee_hr_mean | | | `fee_hr_std` | string | fee_hr_std | | Key: `sa3_code_2011, financial_year, service_type, child_age`. ## Versions - 2017-07-26: 4042 rows, 9 fields, sha256 498a0589b31e. https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Public school term dates, New South Wales, 2019 to 2025](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-term-dates/) (NSW) - [NSW government schools, locations and enrolments](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-public-schools/) (NSW) - [Primary school intake zones, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-intake-zones-primary/) (NSW) - [High school intake zones, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-intake-zones-secondary/) (NSW) - [Future school intake zones, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-school-intake-zones-future/) (NSW) - [Average class sizes in government primary schools by year, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-primary-class-sizes/) (NSW) - [Government primary school zones, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-primary-school-zones/) (SA) - [Government high school zones, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-high-school-zones/) (SA) - [Full-time equivalent enrolments in government schools by school type, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-school-enrolments-by-type/) (SA) ## Attribution and citation Department of Education, Australian Government, Child Care Administrative Data, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/child-care-administrative-data, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Department of Education, Australian Government, Child Care Administrative Data, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/child-care-administrative-data, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/ Harvard: Department of Education (2017) Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne, 2012-13 to 2015-16, version 2017-07-26 [data set], CC BY 3.0 AU, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/ Markdown: Data: [Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne, 2012-13 to 2015-16](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/child-care-administrative-data), Department of Education, [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 4,042 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016/v/2017-07-26/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne cover? The current version covers the years since 2012. Each release from Education becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne updated? Education no longer updates it. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne commercially? Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Child care services, children and hourly fees by area, Greater Sydney and Melbourne? No. The publisher is Department of Education, and its page is https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/child-care-administrative-data. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What is in each row? One ABS Statistical Area Level 3 (2011) in Greater Sydney or Greater Melbourne, one financial year from 2012-13 to 2015-16, one service type and one age group of children. It gives the number of children using Child Care Benefit approved services of that type, the number of services, and the mean and standard deviation of their fees per hour. ### What are the service types? LDC is long day care, for children who have not yet started school. BSC and ASC are before and after school hours care, mostly for school children. ### What do the blanks mean? The department rounds child counts to the nearest 10 and shows counts under 5 as <10, and service counts under 5 as <5. Those cells are null here with a suppressed flag. Fees are rounded to the nearest 5 cents and are kept as the department wrote them, with the dollar sign. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/au-child-care-services-by-sa3-2012-2016.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.