Fig 1.
Early childhood development domains defined by AEDC.
Fig 2.
The structure of the main regions in Queensland, some notable regions include: 1) Southeast Queensland (SEQ) is home to more than 70% of the state’s population. It contains two statistical regions, Greater Brisbane and Moreton. 2) Darling Downs in the state’s inland south-east, which includes the city of Toowoomba 3) South West Queensland in the state’s inland south-west. 4) Central West in the state’s inland central-west. 5) Wide Bay-Burnett is located north-east of the Darling Downs and north of the Sunshine Coast 6)Central Queensland, which includes Fitzroy and Mackay 7) North Queensland on the state’s northern coastline, which includes the city of Townsville. 8) North West in the state’s inland north-west of Queensland and includes the city of Mount Isa. 9) Far North in the state’s extreme northern coastline and also includes the city of Cairns.
Fig 3.
Spatial distribution of the proportion of developmental vulnerable on one or more domain(s) at the SA2 level in Queensland, 2018–2019.
Table 1.
Summary statistics for the GWR model coefficients with global p-values from an ordinary least square regression model (OLS), with major cities as a baseline for remoteness factor.
Fig 4.
Spatial distribution of GWR coefficients in Queensland.
Fig 5.
Spatial distribution of clusters of GWR coefficients at SA2 level in Queensland.
Insight into the SEQ corner is given in the S2 Appendix.
Fig 6.
A comparison of the GWR coefficients for Vuln 1 and risk factors (Australia, English, Preschool, and remoteness, including inner regional, outer regional, remote, and very remote levels) across the three clusters.
Fig 7.
A comparison of the GWR coefficients for Vuln 1 and its associated risk factor, the Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD), which has five levels, with level 1 representing the most disadvantaged regions across the three clusters.
Fig 8.
A box plot representation of the coefficients obtained through Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) for the proportion of attendance at preschool within five domains of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) in the first cluster.