Surrounding road density of child care centers, Australia

The road density was represented by the child care center’s nearest distance to main road and motorway, and the length of main road/motor way within 100~1000-meter buffer zone surrounding the child care center. We also got the data of PM2.5 concentration from 2013 to 2018 and standard Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data from 2013 to 2019 according to the longitude and latitude of the child care centers. This data might help researchers to evaluate the health impacts of road density on child health, and help policy makers to make transportation, educational and environmental planning decisions to protect children from exposure to traffic-related hazards in Australia.The data of registered child care centers were from the website of Australia’s Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority. Data of proximity to main road and motorway of child care centers’ were from google map using R software (version 3.5.1). Data of vectors of the Australian road network were from Open Street Map. The final data includes 16,146 child care centers and 1,002,600 approved children. The presented data allow for spatial aggregations of the child care centers, the proximity to the main road and motorway. This data could be used to analyze the health risk and disease burden for children from exposure to traffic by combining the mortality or morbidity data in Australia. The implementation of the data may help better design and redistribution of child care centers, and assist transportation and environmental planning for the governments. Data of Surrounding road density of child care centers, Australia as the Microsoft Excel file can be freely accessed via the Science Data Bank at http://www.dx.doi.org/10.11922/sciencedb.00728 (last update: 2021-03-23).