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The Department of Education’s Data Strategy guides how we strengthen our ability to develop and deliver effective policies and programs, underpinned by high-quality, accessible, and secure data.

Presentation slides from the small scale market sounding webinar on 20 November 2025.

The First Five Years was developed as a flagship project under the Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) as a collaborative endeavour involving project partners from across government and the university sector.

In this section we show how socio-economic factors such as parental educational attainment, household income and neighbourhood SES were associated with child development vulnerability.

In this section, the risk and preventative factors that had a significant association with early child development are identified.

Associations between early education attendance and child development

In this section we describe the associations between child care quality and rates of being developmentally on track for different subgroups of the population.

Estimating the effect of child care on children’s developmental outcomes

In this section, we summarise the key results of the project, discuss the limitations and future directions.

This section contains detailed information about datasets, key analytical decisions, constructed factors and statistical techniques used within the project.

This section discusses charged and attended child care hours, linkage bias, sample size for the inference computation results, and the rules used for calculating income.

In this section we describe the associations between child care duration and rates of being developmentally on track for different subgroups of the population.