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On page 2, paragraph 2 within the Abstract under the heading Methods and Findings the authors have revised the following sentence:
Applying this model to all LMICs, we estimate that 81.0 million children ages 3 and 4 y (95% CI 49.2 million, 113.3 million) in LMICs experienced low cognitive and/or socioemotional development in 2010, with the largest number of affected children in sub-Saharan Africa (29.5 million; 44.0% of children ages 3 and 4 y), followed by South Asia (27.8 million; 37.8%) and the East Asia and Pacific region (15.2 million; 26.0%).
Beginning on page 13, paragraph 5 of the Results, the authors have revised the following sentences:
In Table 4, we show our global estimates of the number and percentage of children with low cognitive and/or socioemotional development, which suggests that 81.0 million 3- and 4-y-old children (95% CI 49.2 million, 113.3 million) experienced low cognitive and/or socioemotional development in 2010 as measured by the ECDI. This corresponds to a global prevalence in LMICs of 33.0% (95% CI 20.0%, 46.2%). The highest prevalences of low cognitive and/or socioemotional development were estimated for sub-Saharan Africa (44.0%; 95% CI 30.8%, 57.1%) and South Asia (37.8%; 95% CI 24.7%, 51.0%), whereas the lowest prevalences were estimated for the Latin America/Caribbean region (18.7%; 95% CI 6.1%, 31.9%) and the North Africa/Middle East/Central Asia region (18.5%, 95% CI 6.5%, 31.6%). Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia also account for the majority of predicted children with low development, with an estimated 29.5 (95% CI 20.7, 38.3) and 27.8 (95% CI 18.1, 37.4) million 3- and 4-y-olds, respectively.
On page 14, paragraph 6 of the Results, the authors have revised the following sentences:
The country with the highest estimated number of children with low development was India (17.2 million children), followed by China (6.7 million) and Nigeria (6.0 million). The estimated percentage of children with low cognitive and/or socioemotional development ranged from as few as 4.8% of children in Qatar to 67% of children in Chad.
On page 15, paragraph 2 of the Discussion, the authors have revised 49.6% to 49.7%.
Errors within the reporting of these datasets have affected Tables 3 and 4 respectively. The authors have provided the corrected tables below.
Fig 7 is incorrect. The authors have provided a corrected version here.
Proportion of children with low socioemotional and/or cognitive ECDI score relative to the proportion of children with stunting (top) and relative to country HDI (bottom).
S3 and S4 Tables contained incorrect datasets. The authors have provided the corrected tables below.
Supporting Information
S3 Table. MICS/DHS versus non-MICS/DHS low- and middle-income country characteristics.
This file includes corrected datasets for S3 Table.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002233.s001
(DOCX)
S4 Table. Estimated percentage and number of children with low ECDI scores by country.
This file includes corrected datasets for S4 Table.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002233.s002
(DOCX)
Reference
Citation: McCoy DC, Peet ED, Ezzati M, Danaei G, Black MM, Sudfeld CR, et al. (2017) Correction: Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modelling. PLoS Med 14(1): e1002233. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002233
Published: January 30, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 McCoy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.