Comparative Data on public Spending on ECEC Services?

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Comparative Data on public Spending on ECEC
Services?

• 7th Meeting of the OECD Network on ECEC
• Financing ECEC services
• Senior adviser Marit R. Solheim

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Data collection on public spending

• Norway - an integrated system
• The most critical gap Norwegian official data is
  not collected and broken down in the same way as
  the OECD statistics
• National data on public spending is not
  comparable with other countries

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An example - data on operating expenses

• Operating expenses not separated by
• children's age
• care and education
• in Norwegian national data collection
• Statistics Norway has to estimate these numbers
  when reporting to the OECD Education Database

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What do the numbers on public spending not tell
us?
3-5 years
0-3 years
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What kind of data do Norway (and other countries
with integrated systems) need?

• Data on public spending that makes it possible to
  put together blocks
• We can build an take apart
• Is this possible?