Project CEMAPRE internal
| Title | Child and Adolescent Well-being index - Year 2 |
| Participants | Maria Teresa G. Alves, Amélia Bastos, Maria Eugénia Ferrão (Principal Investigator) |
| Summary | Although monitoring and evaluating child poverty has been recognized as important, there is little statistical information focused on children. Because the annual EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey does not include child-specific information on an annual basis, this study proposes a measure of child exposure to household material deprivation based on this dataset. The study considers four domains of deprivation that have a direct impact on child development: housing conditions, household financial capacity, household durable goods, and environment living conditions. Even though developing a child-centered measurement of child deprivation is important, the EU-SILC considers the household as the unit of measurement. Therefore, our proposal allows annual monitoring of children's deprivation, an important insight for social policy purposes. We intend to extend to UE-28 data the methodological approach we have applied to the Portuguese data sample. For that purpose, we plan to submit this project to Eurostat in order to obtain that full dataset (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/microdata/european-union-statistics-on-income-and-living-conditio ns). |