  This study aimed to better understand the vulnerability of 5 to 6 year old
children in their first year of school, based on five health and development
domains. Identification of subgroups of children within these domains can lead
to more targeted research and policies to reduce these vulnerabilities. The
study focused on finding clusters of geographical regions with high and low
proportions of vulnerable children in Queensland, Australia. K-means analysis
was conducted on data from the Australian Early Development Census and the
Australian Bureau of Statistics. The clusters were then compared with respect
to their geographic locations and risk factor profiles. The results are made
publicly available via an interactive dashboard application in R Shiny
