Project report
IMAPI (Early Childhood Development Friendly Index) dataset
Marcos Ennes Barreto ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001The Early Childhood Development Friendly Index (IMAPI) is a dataset covering all 5,570 Brazilian municipalities, designed to measure and monitor the quality of environments for early childhood development. The index is based on 31 main indicators and 13 additional indicators across five domains: Health, Nutrition, Responsive Caregiving, Early Learning, and Security and Safety. It was developed between 2018-2020 using data from 2016 and validated by domain experts. The tool is intended to help assess how well each municipality supports adequate early childhood development.
Key points
- Covers all 5,570 Brazilian municipalities with performance scores
- Based on 31 main indicators and 13 additional indicators spanning five development domains
- Aligned with the Nurturing Care Framework domains
- Data from 2016 using rigorous validation process involving domain experts
- Designed as a supportive tool for policy and programme assessment
Limitations
The document does not describe how the index has been validated or used in practice, nor does it report on actual early childhood development outcomes in Brazilian municipalities. It is unclear what the index values mean in practice or how they correlate with child well-being.
Abstract
This dataset was produced within the ECD-FI (Early Childhood Development Friendly Index) project (IMAPI - in Portuguese) between 2018-2020. It contains the list of all 5,570 Brazilian municipalities codes, a general performance index (IMAPI), and five indices related to each domain of the Nurturing Care Framework: Good Health, Adequate Nutrition, Responsive Caregiving, Opportunities for Early Learning, and Security and Safety. These indices were calculated based on 31 main indicators (spanning the five domains) and 13 additional indicators, based on 2016 values and following a rigorous process involving data acquisition and engineering, weighting scores, and validation by domain experts. IMAPI is intended to be used as a supportive tool for assessing the performance of each Brazilian in relation to the offering of an adequate environment for early childhood development.