School holidays in Australian capital cities from 2004 to 2023

A dataset indicating which days from 2004 to 2022 are school holidays in the eight Australian capital cities (Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney). This applies to urban, government school students. The dataset is attached in both .txt format and .rda format.

Each observation represent a date and city. schoolhols is a binary variable (1 if the day occurs during the school holidays, 0 during the school term). school.hols is a factor variable which is 0 if the day occurs during the school term, 1 during the first school holiday period (the first after commencing the school year), 2 during the second, 3 during the third and 4 during the fourth (the summer break). Tasmania prior to 2013 had three instead of four official school terms; where this applies, the Easter break is treated as the first school holiday period (this break was generally longer than usual for school students), with subsequent holiday periods being denoted as the second, third and fourth holiday periods, respectively.

The data for each city was manually collected and combined from the state and territory government webpages included in the references. For any queries regarding this dataset, please do not hesitate to contact the author: [e-mail].

本数据集旨在指示2004年至2022年间，澳大利亚八个首都城市（阿德莱德、布里斯班、堪培拉、达尔文、霍巴特、墨尔本、珀斯和悉尼）中哪些日期为学校假期。此数据集适用于城市及政府学校的学生。数据集以.txt格式和.rda格式附于其中。

每个观测值代表一个日期和一个城市。'schoolhols'为一个二元变量（若该日为学校假期，则值为1，否则为学校学期期间，值为0）。'school.hols'为一个因子变量，若该日为学校学期期间，则值为0；若该日处于第一个学校假期期间（学期开始后的第一个假期），则值为1；处于第二个假期期间，则值为2；处于第三个假期期间，则值为3；处于第四个假期期间（暑假），则值为4。塔斯马尼亚州在2013年之前设有三个而非四个官方学校学期；在此情况下，复活节假期被视为第一个学校假期期间（此假期通常比学生通常的假期更长），随后的假期期间分别被标记为第二个、第三个和第四个假期期间。

每个城市的具体数据均为手动收集并整合自参考文献中包含的州和领地政府网页。如对数据集有任何疑问，请随时联系作者：[e-mail]。