2024 Australian Early Development Census Technical Report

This report sets out to document the technical aspects of the 2024 AEDC Data Collection, with a particular emphasis on the evaluation of processes, workflows, and response dynamics. With the program in its sixth cycle, a large number of these processes and workflows are well established and require only minor refinements relative to previous cycles.

This report seeks to:

• provide a detailed description of Cycle 6 data collection processes (Section 2), highlighting particularly where refinements were made relative to Cycle 5 and including a discussion of key challenges and opportunities for further process improvement
• analyse selected aspects of the collection, with a view to identifying opportunities for improved execution of future implementations (Section 3)
• summarise issues for consideration for future implementations (Section 4).