Figure 12.3.10: Children vulnerable on the Physical Health and Well-being domain of the Early Development Instrument (EDI)
Percent of children in senior kindergarten, Middlesex-London and Ontario, Cycles 1 to 4 (2003/4 to 2015)
Source:
Government of Ontario. Early Development Instrument (EDI). Toronto, ON: Queen's Printer for Ontario. [Updated: 29 Jun 2015; cited: 29 Jan 2019]. Available from: https://www.ontario.ca/data/early-development-among-children; & Offord Centre for Child Studies. (2018) EDI in Ontario: Over time report. Hamilton, ON: McMaster University. [cited: 21 Feb 2019]. Available from: https://edi.offordcentre.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EDI-in-Ontario-full-print-report-English.pdfFor each of the five domains of the EDI, children with scores below the 10th percentile cut-off of the Ontario Baseline population are considered vulnerable.
In cycle 4 (2015), 17.0% of children in Middlesex-London were vulnerable on the Physical Health and Well-being domain, compared to 16.1% in Ontario (Fig. 12.3.10). For Middlesex-London, the percent increased over time between cycles 2 (12.0%) and 4 (17.0%). In each of the EDI cycles, a higher percent of males in Middlesex-London were vulnerable on this domain compared to females (figure not shown).