In respect of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 2008 Survey of Child Care Services (Pre-Survey Information Sheet): (a) in Section A, why are children up to three years of age combined under one category when in the same survey in 2006, they were split across three separate categories by age group (ie, (i) one, (ii) one to two, and (iii) two to three, years of age); and (b) why has a similar re-categorisation also occurred for children in the age group of three to six years.

With the introduction of the Child Care Management System (CCMS) in 2008/09, the majority of information previously sourced from the AGCCCS, including data on the ages of children, is available from administrative sources without imposing an administrative burden on services.