Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty

Autor/inn/en	Delamonica, Enrique Ernesto; Minujin, Alberto
Titel	Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 82 (2007) 2, S.361-374 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-006-9039-5
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Incidence; Disadvantaged Environment; Child Welfare; Developing Nations; Disadvantaged Youth; Computation; Cross Cultural Studies; Evaluation Methods; Cultural Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Vorkommen; Kindeswohl; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Kultureller Unterschied
Abstract	Recently, the first ever estimate of the number of children living poverty in developing countries was undertaken. The incidence of child poverty was estimated by establishing how many children suffer severe deprivation in at least one out of seven indicators which are internationally recognized as their rights as well as constitutive of poverty. This is a major step forward in the analysis of poverty. In this paper, we generalize these findings on the incidence of children living in poverty by exploring how to estimate the depth and severity of child poverty. Two countries can have the same proportion of children living in poverty, however, the actual plight of children could be very different depending on how many deprivations, on average, children suffer. In addition, even if they suffer from the same average number of deprivations, these deprivation could be the same for all children or be very unevenly distributed. We show how these considerations can be used to estimate the depth and severity of poverty. We use regional data to provide applied examples of this methodology. The method proposed in this paper is similar to the one used to estimate the incidence, depth and severity of income poverty. The paper also offers some possible generalizations and ways forward for future research. (Author).
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