How Well are Australian Infants and Children Aged 4 to 5 Years Doing?

Abstract

This report explores five specific aspects of infants’ and children’s experiences, exposures and environments in relation to their Outcome Index scores: * key sociodemographic characteristics covering the child, mother, family and neighbourhood * non-parental care experiences * child health - prenatal and postnatal experiences and exposures * maternal physical and mental health * the early educational experiences of the child cohort in the home and out-of-home contexts. Background: The researchers used Wave 1 of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) dataset - 5,107 infants aged between 3 to12 months (infant cohort) and 4,983 children aged between 4 to 5 years (child cohort). L..