Understanding Childhood Vulnerability in The City of Surrey
Cody Griffith, Varoon Mathur, Catherine Lin, Kevin Zhu

TL;DR
This paper presents two data-driven methods to visualize and analyze childhood vulnerabilities and community engagement in Surrey, aiding strategic planning for early childhood development.
Contribution
It introduces novel approaches combining health and recreation data to understand neighborhood differences and inform community initiatives.
Findings
Neighborhoods can be clustered based on childhood vulnerability data.
Census variables help explain neighborhood similarities.
Critical ages for program participation influence retention rates.
Abstract
Understanding the community conditions that best support universal access and improved childhood outcomes allows ultimately to improve decision-making in the areas of planning and investment across the early stages of childhood development. Here we describe two different data-driven approaches to visualizing the lived experiences of children throughout the City of Surrey, combining data derived from both public and private sources. In one approach, we find specifically that the Early Development Instrument measuring childhood vulnerabilities across varying domains can be used to cluster neighborhoods, and that census variables can help explain similarities between neighborhoods within these clusters. In our second approach, we use program registration data from the City of Surrey's Community and Recreation Services Division. We also find a critical age of entry and exit for each program…
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Taxonomy
TopicsHomelessness and Social Issues · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Health disparities and outcomes
