Using UNICEF's Early Child Development Index 2030 to Identify Young Children With Significant Cognitive Delay

The ECDI2030 is being used in Round 7 of UNICEF's Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys which are currently underway in 46 countries and in a growing number of USAID funded Demographic Health Surveys. Individual-level data from surveys are freely available to researchers. As data from these surveys begin to be released, they will provide a highly cost-efficient way to redress the current bias in intellectual and developmental disabilities research toward high-income countries and to understand the of children at risk of intellectual disability or global developmental delay in the world's poorer countries.