Understanding Educational Opportunities and Outcomes: An Atlas of South Australia

Summary: Population demographics; Socioeconomic status; Access to and use of services; Education participation and outcomes; Community strength and capacity; Children and young people at risk

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Population demographics

Socioeconomic status

Access to and use of services

Education participation and outcomes

Community strength and capacity

Children and young people at risk

Mapping 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)