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].

本数据集记录了2004年至2022年间，澳大利亚8个首府城市（阿德莱德、布里斯班、堪培拉、达尔文、霍巴特、墨尔本、珀斯及悉尼）的公立中小学假期日期，适用对象为城市公立学校学生。数据集同时提供.txt与.rda两种格式的文件。

每条观测记录对应一个日期与一座城市。其中schoolhols为二分类变量：若当日处于学校假期则取值为1，处于学期教学时段则取值为0。school.hols为因子变量：当日处于学期内时取值为0；新学年开始后的首个假期周期取值为1，第二个假期周期取值为2，第三个为3，第四个为夏季假期。

塔斯马尼亚州在2013年之前官方设有3个学期而非4个，针对这一学制情况，该州的复活节假期被视为首个假期周期（该假期通常较普通学生假期更长），后续假期依次记为第二、第三、第四假期周期。

各城市的假期数据均由研究者手动从参考文献所列的各州及领地政府官网收集并整合。若您对本数据集有任何疑问，请随时联系作者：[e-mail]。