United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Source: UNECE Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (UNICEF TransMONEE) official sources. Definition: Child-care refers to formal child-care arrangements, public or private, such as group care in child-care centres (creche) or registered childminders based in their own homes looking after two or more children. Child-care refers to children at youngest age (typically children aged under 3); pre-primary schools are excluded. Enrolment in child-care centres: Number of children aged under 3 enrolled in child-care centres per 100 children of the same age group. Data normally refer to beginning of the school-year. Availability of places in child-care centres: Ratio of the number of places available for children aged under 3 in child-care centres per 100 children of the same age group. Data refer to beginning of the school-year. General note: depending on the organization of education and child-care centers in countries, data may be available for age groups different from under 3 years. Such differences and other deviations from the above definitions are specified in country notes. .. - data not available Country: Austria Change in definition (1995 - 2012): Data include centre-based institutions and exclude home-based arrangements. Country: Austria Reference period (1995 - 2012): Age calculation as of 31 August, the beginning of school year. Country: Belgium Change in definition (1990 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2.5 years Country: Belgium Reference period (2008 - 2009): Data refer to children enrolled on October 2008 Country: Belgium Territorial change (1990 - 2012): Data cover only the French community of Belgium Country: Bulgaria Reference period (1980 - 2012): Data refer to end of calendar year. E.g. 1980-1981 refers to 31.12.1980. Country: Croatia Additional information (2011 - 2012): Census 2011 data are used for children of the corresponding age. Country: Croatia Data refers to children aged 6 months to 2 years. Country: Cyprus Data refer to the Government controlled area only. Country: Cyprus Data only include enrolmemts in child care centres, exclude child care provided by registered childminders. Country: Denmark Reference period (2004): As of 2004, reference month changed from March to September. Country: Estonia Change in definition (1995 - 2007): Data refer to children aged 1?2 years. Country: Estonia Change in definition (2008 onward): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years. Country: Estonia Reference period (1995 - 2008): Data refer to middle of the school year, i.e. end of calendar year. Country: Estonia Reference period (2009 onward): Data refer to beginning of school year. Country: Finland Change in definition (2000 - 2012): Data refer to end of calendar year. Country: Finland The data include full- and part-time care in day care centres and families Country: France Data cover only Metropolitan France. Child care refers to child care centers and registered childminders based in their own homes. The data exclude pre-primary school, kindergartens, unregistered childminders and childminders working at home. Available places are here counted regardless of the age of the children actually using them : all of them are theorically available for 0-2 years old but some of them are in practice used for children aged 3 or more. Country: Georgia Change in definition (2008 - 2009): Data cover only child care organizations and refer to december. Country: Georgia Territorial change (2000 onward): Data do not cover Abkhazia AR and Tskhinvali Region. Country: Germany Break in methodology (1990): Average calculated for Germany Country: Germany Reference period (1990): Data refer to 21.12.1991. Country: Germany Reference period (1995): Data refer to 1994. Country: Germany Reference period (2000): Data on places refer to 31.12.1998. Country: Germany Children in day care are included starting with reference year 2012/2013 according to definition of ISCED Level 010 in ISCED 2011. Country: Hungary Change in definition (1990 - 2007): Data for available places refer to all children enrolled including children aged 3+ years. Data referred only to nurseries, from 2008 day care and child minding are also included. Country: Hungary Reference period (1990 onward): Data refer to 31 May of each year Country: Iceland Change in definition (1990 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years in formal child-care arrangements and with registered private child-minders. Country: Israel Data are from registers. Country: Italy Change in definition (1980 - 2003): Data refer to formal child-care arrangements in public centres. Country: Italy Change in definition (2004 - 2012): Data refer to formal child-care arrangements, public or private. Country: Kazakhstan Change in definition (2001 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years enrolled in permanent pre-primary organizations functioning at least 10 months per year. Data do not cover other types of existing organizations such as seasonal kindergartens etc. Country: Kyrgyzstan Reference period (1990 - 2012): Data refer to the end of the year. Country: Lithuania Data refer to children aged 1-2 years. Data refer to end of calendar year Country: Moldova, Republic of Data exclude the territory of the Transnistria and municipality of Bender. Data for indicator ''Places available in child-care centres per 100 children'' refers to 0-6 group of age. Country: Montenegro Change in definition (2000 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-2 years enrolled in pre-primary public organizations. Country: Netherlands Data refer to children aged 0-4 years Country: Netherlands 1995-1996 data refer to 1996. 2000-2001 data refer to 2000, 2002-2003 data refer to 2002 etc. Country: Norway Data refer to end of calendar year. i.e. 2000/2001 data refer to December 2000. Country: Poland From 2000 onwards, data concern health care facility: nurseries and nursery wards of nursery schools. Since 2011, the data also apply to children’s club which are a new form of childcare. Country: Poland Reference period (from 2000 onwards): The data in the two-year period refers to the end of the calendar year mentioned in the range as earlier Country: Portugal Data refer to calendar year Country: Portugal Data cover mainland only. Country: Romania Break in methodlogy (2002): From 2002, reference population is the resident population Country: Romania Break in methodology (2010): data refer to formal child-care in public and private sector. Starting 2010 data refer to children aged 0 to less than 3 years. The reference population is the population aged 0-2 years. However in enrolled population also includes children aged 3 years and over. From 2014 data compiled according to ISCED 2011. Country: Romania Change in definition (1990 - 2012): Data refer to formal child-care in public and private sector. Country: Romania Reference period (1990 - 2012): Data refer to calendar year. i.e. data for 2009-2010 refer to 2009. Country: Romania Reference period (2010): Data refer to calendar year. i.e. data for 2009-2010 refer to 2009. Data refer to calendar year. i.e. data for 2010-2011 refer to 2010. Country: Russian Federation Reference period (2000 - 2012): Data are given at the end of the year. Country: Serbia Territorial change (2000 - 2012): The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has no available data on the AP Kosovo and Metohija. Country: Sweden Change in definition (1980 - onwards): Data refer to children aged 1-2 years due to longer parental leave which allows most children aged 0-1 years to be with their parents. Country: Sweden Reference period (2000): Before 2000/2001: data as of 31 December. From 2001: data as of 15 December. Country: Switzerland Data refer to children from 0 to less than 4 years. Country: Tajikistan Change in definition (2000 - 2012): Data refer to children aged 0-3 years. Country: Tajikistan Reference period (2006 - 2007): Data refer to end of calendar year Country: Ukraine Reference period (1990 - 2014): Data refer to calendar year. For all years, data refer to children aged 0-2. Country: United Kingdom Change in definition (2010 - 2012): Childcare includes: Day nursery, Playgroup or Preschool, and Childminders. Childminders look after at least one child for more than 2 hours in any day Country: United Kingdom Reference period (2010 - 2012): Figures do not relate to the beginning of the school year but to a term-time reference week. The Survey is not carried out at the same point each year Country: United Kingdom Territorial change (2010 - 2012): Figures relate to England only and not the whole of the UK Country: United States Change in definition (1995 - 2012): Data refer to civilian, non-institutionalized population. Data refer to children enrolled in an organized care facility which includes day care centers, nursery, preschools, Federal Head Start programs, and kindergarten, grade school. Country: United States Reference period (2000): Data refer to 1999.