Accounts for private kindergartens, 1999

Counties.

Frequency: Annual Timeliness: The statistics are usually published in November/December.

Not relevant

Primary data and information on sample units are stored temporarily in the programming language SAS, and stored permanently as text-files.

The account statistics for private kindergartens presents detailed information about the activities in this sector on the basis of financial information. The statistics provides important and necessary knowledge about the subsidies transferred to kindergartens from the government and municipalities, and information about how these resources are used.

The statistics were first published in 1992. In 2003 (accounting year 2002) a new questionnaire, Q 0257, was used. The present questionnaire allows Statistics Norway to publish more detailed statistics. Starting in 2008 a new web solution called BASIL (The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training) was used for the data collection.

Users include public sector agencies, with Ministry of Education and Research and The Norwegian Directorate of Education and Training as the main user, private organisations, individuals, international organisations and media.

No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given inthe Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.

The account statistics for private kindergartens are related to other statistics in Statistics Norway, such as Children in kindergartens, Households payments in kindergartens, Employees in kindergartens and schools, as well as KOSTRA and Local governments accounts.

The information is collected by The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. Statistics Norway uses the reports to produce official statistics under the authority of the Statistics Act of 21 June 2019 No. 32 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway § 10.

Not relevant

The statistics include all privately owned kindergartens (industry code 88.911) which has been in operation throughout the financial year. Furthermore, the statistics comprise data from privately-owned ordinary kindergartens, family day-care centers and the mixed ordinary kindergartens and family day-care centers.

The statistics are based on a questionnaire from the BASIL database (BArnehage-Statistikk-InnrapporteringsLøsning). The questionnaire is sent to all privately-owned kindergartens.  The Register of Establishments and Enterprises at Statistics Norway is used to obtain necessary information about the population.

The statistics include the whole population of private kindergartens that has been in operation throughout the whole financial year.

The web solution presently in use for the data collection is called BASIL (BArnehage-Statistikk-InnrapporteringsLøsning) and is found on the website of The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. Username and password is sent out within three months after the end of the statistical year, with a response deadline of four weeks.

Revisions and corrections are carried out on the information obtained from the sample population and the structural survey.

Not relevant

The figures are neither published at institutional nor municipal level.

The numbers of establishments included in the statistics vary from year to year. These statistics show income and costs in private kindergartens, and do not give information about numbers of private kindergartens.