Local Government Area Summary Sheet for the Shire of Indigo

Australian Early Development Index

The following data are compiled from the Australian Early Development Index, a population measure of children’s development as they enter school. The average age of these children is 5 years and 7 months. A checklist, completed by a teacher at the child’s school in their first year of full-time school, was completed between 1 May and 31 July 2009. The checklist contained over 100 questions about the development of the child across five developmental domains.

More information about these 5 domains can be found on the AEDI website at http://www.rch.org.au/emplibrary/australianedi/AEDI_Domains_Fact_Sheet_2009.pdf

While collected at the school, local community data relates to where the child lives. Victorian data is shown below, while on the reverse, data is shown for local communities within the Shire of Indigo.

For nationally comparable data, see the AEDI National report 2009 at http://video.wch.org.au/aedi/A_Snapshot_of_Early_Childhood_Development_in_Australia-AEDI_National_Report_2009.pdf Number of children involved in the data collection 61,187 Percent of estimated equivalent population 94.2 (ABS 2009: Estimated Resident Population for 5 year olds) Number of teachers involved in completing checklists 3,783 Number of schools where checklists were completed 1,765 Percentage of children developmentally vulnerable on the following domains Physical health and wellbeing 7.7 Social competence 8.4 Emotional maturity 8.3 Language and cognitive skills (school-based) 6.1 Communication skills and general knowledge 8.3 Percentage of children developmentally vulnerable on one or more domains All children 20.2 Aboriginal children 42.5 Children in the most socio-economic disadvantaged communities 31.6 Children proficient in English and speak another language at home 19.6 Children not proficient in English and speak a language other than English 93.5 Percentage of children developmentally vulnerable on two or more domains All children 10.0 Aboriginal children 26.5 Children in the most socio-economic disadvantaged communities 17.1 Children proficient in English and speak another language at home 8.7 Children not proficient in English and speak a language other than English 54.3 (SEIFA). AlowerIRSEDscoremeans anareaismoredisadvantaged. # TheIRSED-IndexofRelativeSocio-economic Disadvantage-isfromtheAustralianBureauofStatistics Socio-EconomicIndexe ^Data excludeschildrenwithspecial needsandthosedeemedinvalidduetotheirageorthelow numberofresponsesacrossthe included inthetotalforLGA. *Data forcommuniteswithfewerthan15childrenand/or than2teachersinvolvedinthedatacollectionarenotshownabo Within Shireo Within ShireofIndigo,totalcommunitieswithdataavailable(above): 5 hr fIdg*-ttl2434436724341. . 064 1016 6.3 10.0 12.0 20.2 3.4 8.3 2.4 6.1 6.7 8.3 4.3 8.4 3.4 7.7 61187 214 Shire ofIndigo*-total Victoria -total with fewerthan15childrenarenotmadepublic. Shown belowaretheproportionsofchildrenwho'developmentallyvulnerable'onAEDI.Dataforlocalcommunites f Prepared byData, OutcomesandEvaluationDivision -DepartmentofEducationandEarly ChildhoodDevelopment,December 2010 Indi g

o, totalcommunitieswithdatasu Local community aknadh3 . . . . . 033416.54 1060.25 3.4 10.3 3.4 3.4 6.9 0.0 0.0 32 AEDI localcommunitydatawithintheShireofIndigo ecwrh4 ...... 9.53 994.15 4.9 9.8 2.4 0.0 4.9 4.9 2.4 42 agna 700000000000000913 2 981.31 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17 uhrln3 . . 6132322. . 8.82 985.28 9.7 22.6 3.2 3.2 16.1 9.7 6.5 31 Rutherglen hlen1 180059002. 351. 4.82 943.68 11.8 23.5 23.5 0.0 5.9 0.0 11.8 19 Chiltern

Total children surveyed Data source:2009 AustralianEarlyDevelopmentIndex Data source:2009 AustralianEarlyDevelopmentIndex

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Social competence Vulnerability acrossdomains^(%) Page 2of 2

Emotional maturity

Language and cognitive skills

Communication skills and general knowledge

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IRSED quintile across all LGAs (1=most disadvantaged)