Staff members increased by 32 and full-time equivalents by 63
In December 2005 there were 4,735 staff members working 3,935 full-time equivalent jobs in Icelandic pre-primary schools. The previous year there were 4,703 staff members working 3,872 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of employees has increased by 32 since 2004. The number of females increased by 36 while the number of males decreased by 4. The number of full-time equivalent jobs has increased by 63 which is more than the number of staff members, indicating that employees are working more hours than last year. In December 1998 41.5% of staff members in pre-primary schools had one full-time job or more. In December 2005 49.6% of all employees had at least one full-time job, indicating that the proportion of staff members working full-time has increased considerably since 1998.

More educated pre-primary teachers teaching than ever before
Between the years 2004 and 2005 the number of educated pre-primary school teachers increased and the number of unlicensed staff members decreased. The proportion of staff members working in education and child care that are educated as pre-primary school teachers is larger than ever before since Statistics Iceland started its data collection in 1998. In 2005 they were 33.0% of staff members working in education and child care in pre-primary schools. In addition 0.8% of staff members have completed a diploma in pre-primary school education and 5.6% have completed other pedagogical education. Thus, a total of 39.4% of staff in education and child care has completed some pedagogical education.

An increase among the youngest and oldest staff members
The largest age group among staff members in pre-primary schools is 30-39 years old. From 1998 to 2004 the age group 20-29 was the largest among staff members in pre-primary schools. A total of 168 staff members were younger than 20 years old in December 2005 while they were 105 the previous year. The number of staff members in this age group has increased by 63 or by 60.0%. The number of staff members who are 60 years old or older are 230 or 4.9% of all staff. Never before have there been more staff members in this age group. The increase is 6.5% since December 2004. The staff members who are 60 years old or older who are working in education and child care in pre-primary schools are 3.9% of all staff members in this area. The corresponding number of staff members in compulsory schools shows that 7.1% of teaching staff are 60 years old or older.

An increase in staff dropout rate for the second consecutive year
The dropout rate among personnel between the years 2004 and 2005 was 25.8%. The dropout rate is greatest among unskilled personnel. A total of 839 staff members working in education and child care in 2004 had left their jobs in 2005, or one-third of unskilled staff working in education and child care in December 2004. The dropout rate is highest among cleaning personnel, where more than one-half (50.9%) of staff members in 2004 had quit their job in December 2005. The dropout rate is lowest among pre-school teachers, assistant headmasters and department heads. It should be noted that the dropout rate refers to two individual measurements. Therefore personnel who started working in 2005 and left their jobs in the first 11 months of the year are not included in the data.