Understanding Educational Opportunities and Outcomes: An Atlas of South Australia

This project has been funded by the SA Department of Education and Children's Services as a joint undertaking between The Smith Family and PHIDU. It focuses on learning and development, and the differences in education outcomes across communities in South Australia that need to be addressed.  It is hoped that the report and additional data on the World Wide Web will highlight communities and groups within the populations where action  is needed to improve learning and development outcomes.

The links below provide access to the online component of the report, which has been set up as a temporary site to allow review and comment of the online aspects of the atlas.

Please review the 'Notes' document for indicators in your area of interest/ expertise - these can be accessed by clicking on the 'page' icon adjacent to the indicator name under the 'Data' button, once you have clicked on the link to maps.

Download: download report

View: maps; data ; inequality graphs ; remoteness graphs ; correlations

Contents

Population demographics

Socioeconomic status

Education participation and outcomes

Access to and use of services

Community strength and capacity

Children and young people at risk

Full list of topics and indicators

Contents: topics and indicators

Population demographics

Age of children and young people:

• Age of children and young people in 5 year age groups, 0 to 24 years
  

• Projected age of children and young people in 5 year age groups, 0 to 24 years

Birthplace of children and young people:

• Top ten birthplaces of children and young people from non-English speaking countries: China, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and Bosnia

• Indigenous status, 0 to 24 years
• Aboriginal children and young people in 5 year age groups, 0 to 24 years
  

Children and young people born overseas in NES countries:

• Australian-born population aged 0 to 24 years
• Children and young people born (overseas) in predominately English speaking countries
• Children and young people born in predominately non-English speaking (NES) countries
• Children and young people born in NES countries resident in Australia for five years or more
• Children and young people born in NES countries resident in Australia for less than five years
• Children and young people born in NES countries who speak English 'not well', or 'not at all'

Socioeconomic status 

• Children in jobless families
• Children in welfare-dependent and other low income families

• Children in dwellings without a motor vehicle

• Youth unemployment (ages 15 to 24 years)

• Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage

Education participation and outcomes 

Students:

• Preschool students by sex
• Primary school students by sex
• Secondary school students by sex
  

Students by Indigenous status:

• Preschool students by Indigenous status
• Primary school students by Indigenous status
• Secondary school students by Indigenous status

Australian Early Development Index (AEDI):

AEDI: Physical health and wellbeing domain

• Children developmentally vulnerable (below the 10th percentile)
• Children developmentally at risk (between the 10th and 25th percentile)
• Children developmentally on track (between the 25th and 50th percentile and above the 50th percentile)

AEDI: Social competence domain

• Children developmentally vulnerable (below the 10th percentile)
• Children developmentally at risk (between the 10th and 25th percentile)
• Children developmentally on track (between the 25th and 50th percentile and above the 50th percentile)

AEDI: Emotional maturity domain

• Children developmentally vulnerable (below the 10th percentile)
• Children developmentally at risk (between the 10th and 25th percentile)
• Children developmentally on track (between the 25th and 50th percentile and above the 50th percentile)

AEDI: Language and cognitive skills (school-based) domain

• Children developmentally vulnerable (below the 10th percentile)
• Children developmentally at risk (between the 10th and 25th percentile)
• Children developmentally on track (between the 25th and 50th percentile and above the 50th percentile)

AEDI: Communication skills and general knowledge domain

• Children developmentally vulnerable (below the 10th percentile)
• Children developmentally at risk (between the 10th and 25th percentile)
• Children developmentally on track (between the 25th and 50th percentile and above the 50th percentile)

AEDI: All domains

• Children developmentally vulnerable in one or more domain/s
• Children developmentally vulnerable in two or more domains
• Children developmentally on track in all domains
  

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN):

NAPLAN: for government schools - Year 3:

• Participation rate   
  
• Exemption rate
• percentage below national minimum standard for: grammar & punctuation, spelling, reading, writing and numeracy
  

• Participation rate
• Exemption rate
• percentage below national minimum standard for: grammar & punctuation, spelling, reading, writing and numeracy
  

• Participation rate
• Exemption rate
• percentage below national minimum standard for: grammar & punctuation, spelling, reading, writing and numeracy
  

• Participation rate
• Exemption rate
• percentage below national minimum standard for: grammar & punctuation, spelling, reading, writing and numeracy
  

• Highest level of schooling completed by whole population: completed Year 10 or below, or did not go to school

• Full-time participation in secondary school education at age 16
• Publicly examined achievement scores
• Publicly assessed achievement scores
• School assessed achievement scores
• Students who receive a Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER), or equivalent, with at least one of the following subjects: mathematics, physics or chemistry
• Young people aged 19 years who have achieved Year 12 or a comparable senior secondary qualification
  

• Participation in vocational education and training, 15 to 24 years
• School leavers enrolled in a South Australian university
  

• Young people earning or learning

Access to and use of services 

• Out of school hours care

• Total Internet connection
• Broadband
• Dial-up
• Other
• No Internet connection

• Participation of children and young people in school dental service program

• Community health services (ages 0 to 24 years)
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) (ages 0 to 19 years)

• Admissions (public and private) to hospital (ages 0 to 24 years)
• Admissions to public acute hospitals (ages 0 to 24 years)
• Admissions to private hospitals (ages 0 to 24 years)
• Admissions for a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy (ages 0 to 24 years)
• Admissions for a myringotomy (tubes in the ear drum) (ages 0 to 9 years)

Community strength and capacity 

• Volunteering (ABS Census)
• Active involvement with activities in their children’s school
• Can get help from family, friends, neighbours when need to
• Member of organised group in local community

Children and young people at risk 

• Risk of poor pregnancy outcome (ages 15 to 24 years)
• Smoking in pregnancy (ages 15 to 24 years)
• Pregnancy rates (ages 15 to 24 years)
• Terminations of pregnancy (ages 15 to 24 years)
  

Child abuse or neglect

• Notifications, repeat cases & substantiations of child abuse or neglect

• Four year old boys who are overweight (not obese)
• Four year old boys who are obese
• Four year old girls who are overweight (not obese)
• Four year old girls who are obese
  

• Twelve year old children with poor dental health

• Children and young people with a disability (ages 0 to 24 years)

• Infant death rates
• Deaths of children and young people (ages 1 to 24 years)