Project CEMAPRE internal
| Title | A measure of child exposure to household material deprivation in the European Union |
| Participants | Amélia Bastos, Patrícia Costa, Maria Eugénia Ferrão (Principal Investigator), Marcel T Vieira |
| 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 research project intends to propose a measure of child exposure to household material deprivation based on such data. The theoretical and methodological frameworks follow the open access article by Ferrão, Bastos, Alves (2021). The proposal includes the assessment of the model validity in order to its generalizability to the European Union countries. Our work considers four domains of deprivation that have a direct impact on child development: housing conditions, household financial capacity, household durable goods, and environmental living conditions. Although developing a child-centered measurement of child deprivation is important, the EU-SILC considers the household as the unit of measurement. Therefore, our proposal is household-based, allowing annual monitoring of children’s exposure to deprivation—an important insight for social policy purposes to tackle the problem of child poverty. We intend to apply graded response models (GRM) to assess the psychometric properties of the EU-SILC items and fit separate indexes per domain and the composite index. Item selection will be based on their characteristic curves and information functions. Reference: Ferrão, M. E., Bastos, A., & Alves, M. T. G. (2021). A Measure of Child Exposure to Household Material Deprivation: Empirical Evidence from the Portuguese EU-SILC. Child Indicators Research, 14(1), 217–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-020-09754-4 |