ECE statistics

Staffing

Statistics on staffing in the early childhood education sector, including tables on numbers and characteristics of teachers.

The following measures are on this page:

• Teachers by service type.
• Teacher qualification status.
• Teacher registration status.
• Teacher ethnicity.
• Teachers by part-time/full-time status.

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ECE publications

Early Childhood Education workforce

Search ECE publications for a range of research publications looking at different aspects of early childhood education workforce.

Schooling statistics

Teacher numbers

This data measures the number of teachers by standard breakdowns including age, gender, sector and school type. Headcount and full-time teacher equivalents (FTTE) data is available.

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Entering and leaving teaching

The data on this page looks at teachers who move into or out of our teaching workforce each year:

• Entry rates: Teachers who were not teaching at all in one year and were teaching at any point in the next.
• Leaving rates: Teachers who were teaching at any point one year and were not teaching at all in the next.

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Teacher turnover

Teacher turnover looks at the rate at which teachers are leaving and being replenished within schools. Turnover is broken down into three components:

• Leaving teaching: Teachers leaving the teacher workforce.
• Moving school: Teachers who move to a position at another school.
• Moving to day relief: Teachers who move to day relief.

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Schooling publications

Schooling workforce

A collection of research reports on teachers/kaiako, principals, teacher aides and other school professionals. Includes research on specific programmes such as the Teacher Led Innovation Fund (TILF), Teach First NZ and Incredible Years Teaching (IYT).

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Also includes Teaching in New Zealand our teacher related findings from international studies.

Teacher demand and supply planning

The Ministry has designed a Teacher Demand and Supply Planning Projection tool which estimates the number of teachers required by schools in the future, and compares this with an estimate of how many teachers are expected to be employed by schools.

Tertiary statistics

Initial teacher education (ITE)

Statistics giving an overview of trends in the number of students enrolling in and completing ITE qualifications that may lead to registration as a teacher.

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Staffing

Statistics relating to tertiary education staffing in New Zealand.

Tertiary publications

Tertiary system

A collection of research reports on adademic and non-academic staff in tertiary education.