Australian Early Development Index 2009 (AEDI)
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Item type: | Data Source |
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METEOR identifier: | 496433 |
Description: | The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) was completed nationwide for the first time in 2009. Information was collected on over 260,000 Australian children (97.5 per cent of the estimated five-year-old population) in their first year of fulltime school between 1 May and 31 July. COAG has endorsed the AEDI as a national progress measure of early childhood development in Australia. The AEDI is a population measure of children’s health and development, based on the scores from a teacher-completed checklist in their first year of formal schooling. It aims to provide communities with a basis for reviewing the services, supports and environments that influence children intheir first 5 years of life. The AEDI measures development in five domains:
The AEDI is funded by the Australian Government and is conducted by the Centre for Community Child Health (at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and a key research centre of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth. |
Link to data source: | https://data.gov.au/dataset/australian-early-development-index |