Global Scales for Early Development v1.0: Technical report

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This Technical Report documents the development and validation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED). The GSED package v1.0 includes open-access measures that provide a standardized method for measuring the development of children up to 36 months of age across diverse cultures and contexts. It has been created to serve as a population-level assessment of early childhood development (ECD) (up to 36 months) for the global community that may be used for comparisons across countries. In contrast to growth, which is measured by changes in children’s weight in grams and height in centimetres, there has been no uniform scale for children’s early development. The GSED uses an innovative metric, the Developmental score (D-score), a scale with interval properties, to measure children’s development.