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Child Development

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys Data Interpretation, Further Analysis and Dissemination Workshop. Child Development. Early Childhood development (ECD): Key Facts.

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Child Development

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  1. Multiple Indicator Cluster SurveysData Interpretation, Further Analysis and Dissemination Workshop Child Development

  2. EarlyChildhood development (ECD): Key Facts • Early childhood, which spans the period to 8 years of age, is critical to a child’s cognitive, social, emotional and physical development. • Many challenges faced by adults, such as mental health issues, obesity, heart disease, criminality, and poor literacy and numeracy, can be traced back to early childhood. • Brain and biological development during the first years of life is highly influenced by an infant’s environment. • There are simple and effective ways for families and caregivers to ensure optimal child development

  3. Conceptual framework for MICS4 Conceptual framework for ECD in MICS • Access to basic services Core ECD domains • Attendance to Early Childhood Education • Home environment • Supportive factors: • Support for Learning • Learning Materials: Children’s Books and Playthings • Risk factors: • Inadequate care • Child development Early Childhood Development Index

  4. Attendance to Early Childhood Education Programme • Definition: Number of children age 36-59 months who are attending an early childhood education programme / Total number of children age 36-59 months • Importance: improves child’s literacy and numeracy skills & social and emotional development & Enhances school-related achievements; allows women to enter the workforce; increases family & family and community cohesion; increases GDP and public revenues - opportunity to break the cycle of poverty

  5. Children in the poorest households are less likelyto access early childhood education programmes

  6. Support for Learning • Three indicators: Support for learning among any adult and support for learning among fathers/mothers • Definitions: • - Number of children age 36-59 months with whom an adult/ father / mother has engaged in four or more activities to promote learning and school readiness in the past 3 days / Total number of children age 36-59 months • Importance: Positive stimulation influences child’s ability to acquire cognitive, emotional and social competencies and is associated with decreased behavioral problems later in life

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  8. Mothers are the households members most likely to engage in early learning activities for children

  9. Learning Materials • Two indicators: availability of children's book and availability of playthings • Definitions: • - Number of children under age 5 who have three or more children’s books / Total number of children under age 5 • - Number of children under age 5 who play with two or more types of playthings / Total number of children under age 5 • Importance: strong association between availability of books and playthings and cognitive/socio-emotional development

  10. Children in the richest households are more likelyto have books in the home

  11. Inadequate care • Definition: Number of children under age 5 left alone or in the care of another child younger than 10 years of age for more than one hour at least once in the past week / Total number of children under age 5 • Importance: Leaving a young child alone or with another young sibling is associated with: • Increased risk of harm and injury • Increased risk of abuse and neglect • Increased mortality

  12. Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) • Definition: Number of children age 36-59 months who are developmentally on track in at least three of the following four domains: literacy-numeracy, physical, social-emotional, and learning • Importance: Provides a snapshot of (or a window into) the child’s developmental status at the time of measurement and can be used to measure outcomes of ECD, nutrition or health interventions • ECDI needs to be interpreted within the context of other variables available from MICS and other sources

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