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Identifying Off-Diagonal Communities Using the Australian Early Development Census Results
- Source :
- Social Indicators Research. 132:977-992
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- An individual's, and indeed the nation's, social and economic futures are highly dependent on early childhood development (ECD) outcomes, with poor ECD inhibiting future opportunities. Ecological ECD literature describes family, community and institutions as being key factors in children's wellbeing, with suggestions that community factors may ameliorate impacts of poor ECD. It is therefore important to develop a greater understanding of those modifiable factors that positively, and negatively, affect ECD outcomes so as ECD policy and practice can be designed and implemented effectively. One approach to this analysis is through the identification and analysis of influencing factors identified within off-diagonal communities-that is those communities where children have either developed well in consideration of their high-levels of socio-economic disadvantage, or developed poorly in consideration of their low levels of socio-economic disadvantage. In this paper we describe a new method for the identification of off-diagonal communities. The method provides a clear and transparent approach to community selection, including a range of methods to further interrogate the community selection ensuring a rigorous and considered selection process. This new method, based on population Census and Australian Early Development Census data, provides the first step in identifying community factors likely to facilitate childhood wellbeing. These findings could inform policy making to reduce inequities by assisting in policy and service delivery design targeted to community needs. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Sociology and Political Science
Service delivery framework
050109 social psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Human geography
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
030212 general & internal medicine
Early childhood
Disadvantage
Built environment
child development
Public economics
Public health
05 social sciences
General Social Sciences
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
built environment
Child development
indicators
Identification (information)
socio-economic standards
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730921 and 03038300
- Volume :
- 132
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Indicators Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3c00c8e6e6ba777ffd77128ae2fea8c4