AEDI Results

The AEDI provides information about how communities have supported the development of their children before school. Between May and July 2009, the AEDI was completed for 261,203 Australian children in their first year of full-time school from every state and territory.

The AEDI results provide communities with a snapshot of the development of their children across five key areas of early childhood development.

The initial release of results are presented in A Snapshot of Early Childhood Development in Australia: AEDI National Report 2009 and as AEDI Maps (both available now).

The AEDI National Report 2009 was initially released on 10 December 2009. The report was recently re-issued to correct minor edits that affect Table 3.6 (page 24) of the report, as well as corresponding figures in the body of the report. The edits were necessary because of a change to the denominator used in the table.

Detailed AEDI Community Profiles are also available (May 2010) and the final 2009/10 AEDI Maps will be available later this year.

For communities with small numbers of children, or where demographic data are incomplete, AEDI results from the 2009 data collection are not available. For those communities with small numbers of children, follow-up data collection may occur in 2010. The final national release of results for all communities will be in early 2011.

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