This is the SDG. 4.2.1 indicator that tracks the progress made to SDG target 4.2. Which is 'by 2030, ensure all boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education’.
As per the SDG definition, this refers to the proportion of children aged 24 to 59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psycho-social well-being, and it includes the following concepts :
- Health: gross motor development, fine motor development and self-care
- Learning: expressive language, literacy, numeracy, pre-writing, and executive functioning
- Psycho-social well-being: emotional skills, social skills, internalising behaviour, and externalising behaviour
Available data:
UNICEF Data -Early childhood development- development status.
Human Rights Standards:
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 6.2, 24, 27, General Comment No. 7 (paras. 13 and 39).
Levels and Types of Education:
Marginalised Groups:
Types of Indicator:
Levels of disaggregation:
Disaggregation by the age of the child as well as based on Gender, Income, Minority, Region, Racial, Descent (Caste), Urban/Rural, Persons with Disabilities, Migrants, Refugees and IDPs.
Early Childhood Development Index : UNICEF has developed a tool, Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI 2030), to exclusively measure this SDG indicator 4.2.1: proportion of children under five years of age who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psycho-social well-being. ECDI 2030 captures the achievement of critical developmental milestones by children between the ages of 24 and 59 months. Mothers or primary caregivers are asked 20 questions about how their children behave in certain everyday situations and the skills and knowledge they have acquired. Key demographics and subnational areas can disaggregate the data.