The Register Foreign Childcare (RBK) contains all registered childcare facilities abroad assessed as meeting Dutch quality requirements. The dataset is divided into current and historical registrations, covering daycare (DGO), childcare (GOO), and out-of-school care (BSO). It is updated twice weekly by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is published under a CC0-1.0 license.
Use Cases
- Mapping the availability of Dutch-standard childcare abroad based on the registry of locations.
- Analyzing trends in facility registration and deregistration based on the split between current and historical records.
- Comparing service types (DGO, GOO, BSO) across different international regions.
- Monitoring changes in the quality-assured childcare landscape based on the twice-weekly update schedule.
Strengths
- Data is updated twice a week (Monday and Friday), suggesting high recency.
- Includes a clear distinction between currently registered and historically registered facilities.
- Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and assessment bias inherent to the Dutch regulatory perspective.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
- Collection Method
- Registry of assessed foreign childcare facilities.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Updated twice a week (Monday and Friday).
- Geography
- Childcare facilities located abroad (outside the Netherlands).