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childdevdata: Child Development Data
Stef van Buuren, Iris E. Eekhout, Marta Rubio Codina, Orazio Pietro Attanasio, Costas Meghir et al. ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This is a technical software package documentation describing a data tool for organizing and analyzing child developmental milestone data. It does not present research findings, evaluate an intervention, or report on child well-being outcomes. It is a resource for researchers to use in developing measurement methodologies.
Key points
- The package bundles publicly available datasets with individual milestone data for children aged 0-5 years
- It focuses on developmental milestones such as 'able to sit' or 'says two words'
- It aims to support construction, evaluation, validation and interpretation of methodologies that aggregate milestone data
Limitations
This document does not report any empirical findings about child development or evaluate any intervention. It is a methodological tool description rather than research reporting.
Abstract
Measuring child development starts by collecting responses to developmental milestones, such as "able to sit" or "says two words". There are many ways to combine such responses into summaries. The package bundles publicly available datasets with individual milestone data for children aged 0-5 years, with the aim of supporting the construction, evaluation, validation and interpretation of methodologies that aggregate milestone data into informative measures of child development.