- Wave

Demographics

The data available through the EDI Data Dashboard are reported based on children’s home postal codes and include kindergarten children who live within the boundary type selected.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI demographics.

kindergarten children in had an EDI started for them in Wave .

Demographics

The demographics table shows data for kindergarten children who live in the selected area who had an EDI started for them by their classroom teacher.

Total EDI: Total number of children in the school district for whom an EDI questionnaire has been started. In a few school districts, for a small number of children, only demographic data are available. This is most often due to a child transferring schools during the school year. Their demographic data are included in the demographic counts, but they are not included in the vulnerability data in the report.
ELL: Designated English Language Learners based on school district administrative data.
Special Needs: Designated Special Needs by school administrative data.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI demographics.

Males	Females	ELL	Special Needs

(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)

(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)

Participation

Participation data are only available when the “School District” boundary type is selected. All other boundary types (Health, MCFD and neighbourhood) do not have participation data.

The participation table shows the number of total EDIs collected within a school district at specific times during a wave cycle.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI participation.

Note: In some cases, the participation table indicates that a school district did not participate in EDI data collection in a particular year (“N” under “participated” column) yet there is a number in the “Total EDI” column. EDI data are aggregated by where children live using their home postal code. In some cases, a child may live within a school district boundary but not attend a public school in that district, but rather a Francophone, Indigenous or independent school in the area, or they may attend a public school in a neighbouring district. As a result, children may appear in the participation counts in years when the school district did not participate.

WAVE	School Year	Participated	Total EDI

Overall Outcomes

% or kindergarten children in were vulnerable on One or More scales of the EDI in Wave .

Map of Overall Vulnerability

How to Use the Map

Use the legend to interpret the variability in colour for the overall vulnerability map. The darker the colour on the map, the higher the vulnerability rate.

Overall vulnerability map legend

Hovering on an area in the map will show the percentage and number of children vulnerable for that area.

Clicking on an area in the map will refresh the data in the dashboard to that area.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI maps.

Note: Grey areas indicate there are no data (i.e., a district did not participate) or data are suppressed (i.e., there are fewer than 35 kindergarten children in one or both waves or the margin of error threshold was not reached).

Overall outcomes summary

Overall Outcomes Summary

How to Read the Charts

The bar charts show the percentage and number of children vulnerable (red), in flux (yellow), or on track (green) in their overall development across all five scales of the EDI. See sample chart below. The vertical comparison line in these bar charts represents the average for all areas within the selected boundary type. For example, when viewing the overall outcome for a school district, the average line represents All School Districts (BC Average) within the selected wave.

Overall Outcomes

Overall Vulnerable: A summary measure that reports the percentage and number of children who are developmentally vulnerable on one or more of the five scales of the EDI. Children included in this measure may be vulnerable on only one scale or may be vulnerable on up to five scales of the EDI. Without additional support and care, children who are vulnerable on one or more scales of the EDI (overall vulnerability) are more likely to experience future challenges in their school years and beyond.
Overall In Flux: A summary measure that reports the percentage and number of children who are neither on track for all scales, nor vulnerable on any of the scales. Children included in this measure may or may not catch up to their on-track peers and may benefit from additional supports.
Overall On Track: A summary measure that reports the percentage and number of children who are developmentally on-track across all five scales of the EDI. Children included in this measure are most likely to have successful trajectories in school and beyond.

TIP: Hover over the bar charts to view additional data such as number of children vulnerable, in flux, and on track. For areas where average lines are available, hover over the line to view percentages.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI outcome measures.

Range in Vulnerability

Range in Vulnerability - Overall

How to Read the Chart

The range in vulnerability (overall) chart shows the distribution from lowest overall vulnerability to highest overall vulnerability within a selected boundary type. See sample chart below. Each bar represents the overall vulnerability rate for one area within that selected boundary type. The black line, which appears when a specific area is selected, indicates the overall vulnerability rate for that selected area.

Range in Vulnerability - Overall

View the Technical Guide for more information.

Overall Trends

Explore EDI overall outcome trends over time with the following charts:

Overall Vulnerability Chart

Shows the overall vulnerability rates for the selected area from Wave 2* to the current wave. For select boundary/region types, a comparison line is shown in grey.

Overall vulnerability over time

The symbols to the right of the chart indicate an area's meaningful change in the long-term (LT) and short-term (ST).

Meaningful Change: HELP’s definition of meaningful change is based on Critical Difference, which is a statistical method for determining when two scores (e.g., an area’s EDI vulnerability rate over two time periods) are different enough to be “worth talking about.” We limit our reporting of meaningful change to long-term and short-term trends, using the following symbols in the report:

Meaningful Change

TIP: When viewing two or more trend lines in a chart, you can toggle individual line charts off and on by clicking the corresponding line in the legend located to the right of the chart.

Overall Outcomes Chart

Shows the percentage of children who are vulnerable, in flux or on track in their overall development (across all five scales of the EDI) for the selected area from Wave 2* to the current wave.

Overall outcomes over time

TIP: Use the legend to the right of the Overall Outcomes chart to toggle each outcome off and on.

Multiple Vulnerabilities Chart

Shows the percentage of children who are vulnerable on one, two, three, four, or all five scales of the EDI for the selected area from Wave 2* to current wave.

Multiple vulnerability over time

TIP: Use the legend to the right of the Multiple Vulnerability chart to toggle each of the number of scale bars off and on.

View the Technical Guide for more information on meaningful change and suppression.

Notes:

*Due to changes in the EDI questionnaire after Wave 1 data collection, Wave 2 is HELP's baseline and Wave 1 data are not publicly reported.

Trends are not available (N/A) if there are no data (i.e., the district did not participate) or data are suppressed (i.e., there are fewer than 35 kindergarten children in one or both waves or the margin of error threshold was not reached).

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Scale Outcomes

Social
Emotional
Physical
Language
Communication

% or kindergarten children in were vulnerable on the Social Competence scale of the EDI in Wave .

Map of Scale Vulnerability

How to Use the Map

Use the legend to interpret the variability in colour for the scale-level vulnerability map. The darker the colour on the map, the higher the vulnerability rate.

Scale-level vulnerability map legend

Hovering on an area in the map will show the percentage and number of children vulnerable for that area.

Clicking on an area in the map will refresh the data in the dashboard to that area.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI maps.

Scale Outcomes summary

Scale Outcomes Summary

Getting Started on this Module

Select a scale from the menu above to explore outcomes and trend data for the scale of your choice.

How to Read the Charts

The bar charts show the percentage and number of children vulnerable (colour shown is based on selected scale), at risk (yellow), or on track (green) on the specific area of development the scale is measuring. See sample chart below. The vertical comparison line in these bar charts represents an average for all areas within the selected boundary type. For example, when viewing the scale-level outcome for a school district, the average line represents All School Districts (BC Average) within the selected wave.

Scale Outcome

Vulnerable on an EDI scale: The percentage and number of children who score below the 10th percentile cut-off in the area of development measured by the scale.
At Risk on an EDI scale: The percentage and number of children who score between the 10th and the 25th percentile cut-off in the area of development measured by the scale.
On Track on an EDI scale: The percentage and number of children who score above the 25th percentile cut-off in the area of development measured by the scale.

TIP: Hover over the bar charts to view additional data such as number of children vulnerable, at risk, and on track. For areas where average lines are available, hover over the line to view percentages.

View the Technical Guide for more information on the five scales of the EDI.

Range in Vulnerability

Range in Vulnerability - Scale level

How to Read the Chart

The range in vulnerability (scale-level) chart shows the distribution from lowest scale-level vulnerability rate to highest scale-level vulnerability rate for the selected boundary type for that scale. See sample chart below. Each bar represents the scale-level vulnerability rate for a specific area within the boundary type. The black line, which appears when a specific area is selected, indicates the scale-level vulnerability rate for that selected area.

Range in Vulnerability Scale chart

View the Technical Guide for more information.

Scale Trends

Explore more about EDI scale-level trends over time with the following charts:

Scale Vulnerability Chart

Shows the scale-level vulnerability rates for the selected area from Wave 2^* to the current wave. Depending on the selected boundary/region type, a comparison line will be shown in grey. Scale vulnerability over time

The symbols to the right of the chart indicate an area's meaningful change in the long-term (LT) and short-term (ST).

Meaningful Change

TIP: When viewing two or more trend lines in a chart, you can toggle individual line charts off and on by clicking the corresponding line in the legend located to the right of the chart.

Scale Outcomes Chart

Shows the percentage of children who are vulnerable, at risk or on track on the scale for the selected area from Wave 2* to the current wave. Scale outcomes over time

TIP: Use the legend to the right of the Scale Outcomes chart to toggle each outcome off and on.

View the Technical Guide for more information on meaningful change and suppression.

Notes:

*Due to changes in the EDI questionnaire after Wave 1 data collection, Wave 2 is HELP's baseline and Wave 1 data are not publicly reported.

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Subscales

Getting Started on this Module

Select a scale from the menu below to explore the scale and subscale trends data for the scale of your choice. The line charts show the trends in vulnerability over time from Wave 2 (2004–2007) to the current wave for the selected scale and its corresponding subscales.

You may toggle the individual subscales off and on by clicking the legend to the right of the chart.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI subscales.

Social
Emotional
Physical
Language
Communication

No subscales available

EDI subscales can reveal which developmental areas are contributing to increases or decreases in scale-level vulnerability rates.

Scale Trends

Scale Trends (% vulnerable)

The top line chart is a scale-level trend line that shows the percentage of children vulnerable on the EDI scale selected.

The symbols to the right of the chart indicate an area's meaningful change in the long-term and short-term.

Scale Trend line - Subscales Module

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI scales and subscales and meaningful change.

Subscale Trends

Subscale Trends (standardized score)

In contrast to the EDI scales, subscale data are reported as standardized versions of the raw scores.

EDI subscale scores are benchmarked to the results of the Wave 2 provincial data collection (2004–2007), which is the earliest wave that HELP reports on. By using this benchmark or baseline, the average provincial score for all subscales is set to zero. This allows us to both track trends over time in the subscale scores, and directly compare subscales with each other.

The symbols to the right of the chart indicate an area's meaningful change in the long-term (LT) and short-term (ST).

Subscales trend chart

How to Read Trend Charts:

A downward trend line indicates that children are doing better than before and that the subscale is contributing to a decrease in the vulnerability rate.
An upward trend line indicates that children are doing worse than before and that the subscale is contributing to an increase in the vulnerability rate.

TIP: When viewing two or more trend lines in a chart, you can toggle individual line charts off and on by clicking the corresponding line in the legend located to the right of the chart.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI subscales and meaningful change.

Explore within

There are no data available for Neighbourhood, Community Health Service Area, and MCFD Local Service Area boundary types or for areas with a single sub-region.

Explore within

Explore within Area

Getting Started on this Module

Select from Overall or a Scale to view vulnerabililty and outcomes data of sub-regions "within" a selected boundary type. For example, if you are viewing a specific school district's data, the "Explore within Area" module will display data of the HELP neighbourhoods within the selected school district.

The vertical grey comparison line represents the average for all areas within the selected boundary type. Please note: for all sub-regions of the Health boundary type (SDA, LSA, CHSA) the comparison line represents the average for the corresponding Health Authority that the specific area belongs to. Similarly, all sub-regions of the MCFD boundary type (SDA, LSA), the comparison line represents the average for the corresponding MCFD Region that the specific area belongs to.

View the Technical Guide for more information on the Explore within Area Module.

Overall
Social
Emotional
Physical
Language
Communication

Map of Vulnerability

How to Use the Map

Use the legend to interpret the variability in colour for the vulnerability map. The darker the colour on the map, the higher the vulnerability rate.

Overall vulnerability map legend

Hovering on an area in the map will show the percentage and number of children vulnerable for that area.

Please note: Clicking on an area in the map WILL NOT refresh the data in the dashboard to that area at this time.

View the Technical Guide for more information on EDI maps.

Vulnerability & Outcomes

Explore overall or scale-level data for a sub-areas within your chosen boundary type and area with the following chart:

Vulnerability Chart

The bar charts show the overall or scale-level vulnerability rates for sub-regions within the selected area for the selected wave. The vertical grey line represents the average for all areas within the selected boundary type.

Explore within Module - Vulnerability

Please note: For all sub-regions of the Health boundary type (HSDA, LHA, CHSA) the comparison line represents the average for the corresponding Health Authority that the specific area belongs to. Similarly, all sub-regions of the MCFD boundary type (SDA, LSA), the comparison line represents the average for the corresponding MCFD Region that the specific area belongs to.

Outcomes Chart

The bar charts show the overall and scale-level outcomes for kindergarten children in a sub-region within a selected area for a selected wave. If "Overall" is chosen, the bar charts show the percentage and number of children who are vulnerable overall (red) in flux (yellow), and on track (green) for a sub-region within a selected area for a selected wave. If one of the five scales are chosen, the bar charts show the percentage and number of children vulnerable (colour depends on selected scale), at risk (yellow), or on track (green) on the specific area of development the scale selected is measuring. See sample chart below. Hover over each colour on the bar graph to see percentages and numbers of children in each outcome category.

Explore within Module - Outcomes

TIP: Hover over the bar charts or areas on the map to view the percent and number of children vulnerable, at risk or in flux, or on track in a sub-region.

View the Technical Guide for more information.

Note: Sub-regions are not available (N/A) if there are no data (i.e., the district did not participate) or data are suppressed (i.e., there are fewer than 35 kindergarten children in one or both waves or the margin of error threshold was not reached).

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Resources

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EDI Data Dashboard Technical Guide

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EDI Wave 8 Provincial Synthesis

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EDI Overview

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EDI PowerPoint Template

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Demographics

Demographics

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Map of Overall Vulnerability

Overall outcomes summary

Range in Vulnerability

Overall Trends

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Map of Scale Vulnerability

Scale Outcomes summary

Range in Vulnerability

Scale Trends

Subscales

Scale Trends

Subscale Trends

Explore within

Explore within

Map of Vulnerability

Vulnerability & Outcomes

Resources

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EDI Data Dashboard Technical Guide

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EDI Wave 8 Provincial Synthesis

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EDI Overview

PPT

EDI PowerPoint Template

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