Description
- Proportion of First Nations children in most disadvantaged IRSD quintile assessed as developmentally on track in all five domains
- Proportion of First Nations children in least disadvantaged IRSD quintile assessed as developmentally on track in all five domains
- Proportion of non-Indigenous children in most disadvantaged IRSD quintile assessed as developmentally on track in all five domains
- Proportion of non-Indigenous children in least disadvantaged IRSD quintile assessed as developmentally on track in all five domains
Data period
Data source
Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), via the Australian Government Productivity Commission website < https://www.pc.gov.au/closing-the-gap-data/dashboard/socioeconomic/outcome-area4 >.
Region types reported
- Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2021 Main Structure regions: States and Territories, Australia.
Suppression rules
Measure based on publicly available data. No further suppression rules applied.
Notes
- Based on ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD), 2016 using SA1 as the building block. Data are reported by IRSD quintile that are determined at the Australian level and exclude children with unknown or unavailable SEIFA score.
- Children who score above the 25th percentile, determined using the cut-off points established in the first national census (2009 AEDC), are classified as ‘on track’. A set of cut-off points define on track for each of the five domains: physical health and well-being, social competence, emotional maturity, language and cognitive skills (school-based), and communication skills and general knowledge.
- For 2021, AEDC data were collected for 305,015 children, equating to an estimated 95.5 per cent of first year school enrolments based on ABS schools data. Of the 305,015 children with data collected for the AEDC, 20,646 children (6.8 per cent) were Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children. Based on ABS estimates, this equates to an estimated 96.2 per cent of first year school enrolments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
- Of the participating children, 5.7 per cent did not have domain scores calculated or did not have sufficient information across the five domains to determine whether they are developmentally on track in all five domains (10.3 per cent of participating Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children).
- For information on how AEDC results may have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic see How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected children? – AEDC 2021 Data Story.
Reference material
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2018), Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia, 2016, ABS website, accessed 13 November 2023.
Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) (2022), Australian Early Development Census, AEDC website, accessed 13 November 2023.
Productivity Commission (PC) (2023), Socioeconomic outcome area 4, PC website, accessed 3 October 2023.
