Table 5.

Example of analysis of an item

Item	Providers’ comments	Parents’ comments	Equivalence type	Decision
Indoor play and games (e.g. puzzles, workbooks, stuffed animals, cars, blocks, water and sand play, pretend play and dress-up, peek-a-boo, hide-and-seek and board games)	Children in Singapore do not play with sand at home due to physical constraints.	‘Workbooks’ should not come under indoor play and games, as they are academic-related.	Item	Removed ‘sand-play’ and ‘workbooks’
		Children in Singapore do workbooks but for academic reasons and not as play and games. These workbooks are usually homework from school or enrichment classes that they attend.		Added an additional item ‘Structured learning time (e.g. school or enrichment classes homework, workbooks, assessment books)’ because it is relevant to Singaporean children but missing from the original YC-PEM