Child care issues are also becoming increasingly important in the context of balancing work and family life. Every year, comparable statistics on day care from all nine federal provinces are published and summarised in the German-language document ‘Kindertagesheimstatistik’. In addition, a monitoring report is published annually with key figures on (extended) attendance rates for 0- to 5-year-old children and the proportion of children in daycare centers with full-time equivalent care.
Based on a contract for work and services with the competent ministry, every federal state collects data about its institutional day care in accordance with a uniform set of questions and a standardised list of characteristics. The reference data for the data collection is generally 15 October of the reporting year in question. Statistics Austria analyses, evaluates and publishes this data in a standardised way. Overview tables and maps are available on our website.