Compatibility indicator for family and work

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The compatibility indicator for family and work (VIF) was developed by the Vienna Chamber of Labor (AK Wien) in 2006 to record how many places in childcare are compatible with full-time employment of the parents. Originally the indicator was only intended for the analysis of the childcare situation, but it was then adopted in federal-state contracts ( agreements pursuant to Art. 15a B-VG ) to promote the expansion of childcare places.

criteria

The indicator is intended to record elementary child education and care (“VIF criteria”) that is compatible with full employment of parents. The evaluation is based on the data that are collected for the annual publication “Child day care center statistics”. This is a full survey of all child care facilities that are open regularly and all year round and where care is provided by qualified staff. This was defined as follows:

An institutional offer of elementary child education and care a) by qualified staff, b) at least 47 weeks in the kindergarten year, c) at least 45 hours a week, d) weekdays from Monday to Friday, e) four days a week at least 9 ½ hours and f ) with lunch;

Development of the criteria

Originally, the criteria of the Chamber of Labor were intended as a monitoring instrument and, according to the responsible expert, Sybille Pirklbauer, should not be too narrow in order not to exclude too many institutions. Therefore, opening times of at least 40 hours a week and at least eight hours a day were planned. The facility had to be open until 5 p.m. on at least four days. Furthermore, there had to be an offer of lunch. With the first "Agreement in accordance with Art. 15a B-VG on the expansion of the institutional childcare offer and on the introduction of mandatory early language support in institutional childcare facilities as well as the creation of a nationwide preschool education plan", the criteria were made stricter because they are now relevant to the level of funding of childcare places and the highest possible standards should be achieved. The minimum weekly opening time has been increased to 45 hours per week; on four days it must be 9.5 hours. In addition, the list was supplemented by the criterion of maximum closing days: These were now not allowed to exceed five weeks a year (= the vacation entitlement of employees).

Using the VIF indicator

The indicator was initially used by AK Vienna primarily for analyzes and in press work. Subsequently, the chambers of other federal states adopted the indicator and used it in their respective publications, including Upper Austria (AKOÖ child care atlas), Styria (AK child care atlas) and Carinthia (documentation of child care in Carinthia).

Finally, the indicator was also included in the 15a agreements between the federal government and the federal states to expand childcare. There, federal subsidies to the federal states for the creation of childcare places are agreed, the amount of which is staggered according to opening times. The highest funding rate is available for VIF places. The effectiveness of these grants was evaluated for the period 2007–2010 by Statistics Austria on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Family Affairs and made publicly available in the publication “Development of the day-care center visit”. This is the only official publication that contains analyzes of the VIF.

In 2015, the Vienna AK published an evaluation of the development of the childcare situation in the years 2003/04 to 2013/04 as part of the “Current Social and Economic Statistics” series. For this purpose, the VIF indicator was calculated retrospectively up to the base year. The evaluation shows a clear increase in the number of VIF places in the period analyzed.

Since the 2014/2015 edition of the day care center statistics, the VIF indicator has been published there directly by Statistics Austria under the title “Children in day care centers according to categories of the 15a agreement” (Table 28).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. http://www.statistik.at/web_de/Redirect/index.htm?dDocName=064865  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 11@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.statistik.at  
  2. ↑ http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/bildung_und_kultur/formales_bildungswesen/kindestagesheime_kinderbetreuung/index.html
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik.at
  4. ↑ Federal Law Gazette II No. 478/2008 : Art. 4 para. 5
  5. ↑ Federal Law Gazette II No. 478/2008
  6. ↑ http://ooe.arbeiterkammer.at/beratung/berufundfamilie/kinderbetreuung/AKOOe_Kinderbetreuungsatlas.html
  7. ↑ http://media.arbeiterkammer.at/stmk/KIDR_kinderbetreuungsatlas2014_pdf.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / media.arbeiterkammer.at  
  8. ↑ http://media.arbeiterkammer.at/kaernten/Broschueren/BerufundFamilie/Kinderbetreuung_Bericht_Final.pdf
  9. ↑ [1]
  10. ↑ beruferkammer.at : SOCIAL & WIRTSCHAFTSSTATISTIK AKTUELL: Childcare and elementary education: The development over the last 10 years (pdf; 90.4 kB; 5 pages), No. 1/2015, accessed on January 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ statistik.at: Bildung, Kultur: Kindertagesheimstatistik 2017/18 (for Austria) , accessed on January 23, 2019.