New Zealand Childcare Survey 2009 (Revised 17 December 2010)

Highlights

53.9 percent of pre-school children attended formal early childhood education (ECE) and care and 44.1 percent attended informal care.
8.8 percent of school children aged 5–13 years attended formal out-of-school services (OSS) and care and 39.6 percent attended informal care.
80.9 percent of children aged 3–5 years who were attending formal ECE used '20 Hours ECE'.
17.0 percent of employed parents had used at least one work arrangement in the previous week to help care for a child.

Graph, Children attending childcare, by age of child and care type.

Cathryn Ashley-Jones	17 December 2010
Acting Government Statistician	ISBN 978-0-478-35343-3 (online)