Project CEMAPRE internal
| Title | A measure of child exposure to household material deprivation, Year IV |
| Participants | Amélia Bastos, Patrícia Costa, Maria Eugénia Ferrão (Principal Investigator), Clara Margaça, Marcel T Vieira |
| Summary | Although monitoring and evaluating child poverty has been recognized as important, there is little statistical information focused on children. Our proposal, the MultiChild index, aims to provide a multidimensional measurement of children's exposure to household material deprivation/poverty. This index is developed based on data from the EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The ongoing research encompasses various aspects, including theoretical and methodological framework considerations (Ferrão et al., 2021), the interpretation of scale-related issues in comparison to other poverty statistics (Alves et al., 2022), examination of differential item functioning in household material deprivation (Ferrão & Vieira, 2023), empirical analysis of determinants influencing children's exposure to household material deprivation (Amaro et al., 2023), and the application of analysis of variance to assess the statistical significance of territorial region as a factor of material deprivation (Madeira et al., 2023). Following previous research, the studies to be carried out in the year 2024 are as follows: (1) Children exposure to material deprivation in Portugal: on the variability across and within NUT2 regions; (2) Multidimensional poverty of children in Brazil based on PNAD data; (3) The quantification of child poverty with longitudinal data and measurement issues related to the presence of DIF; (4) Validation and interpretation of the Child Exposure to Material Deprivation Index Scale in Spain; (5) Well-being and housing difficulties Scale in Portugal and Spain: validation and interpretation. Keywords: child development, poverty and social exclusion, material deprivation, item response models. References: Alves, M. T. G., Bastos, A., & Ferrão, M. E. (2022). Escala do índice de exposição da criança à privação material em Portugal: validação e interpretação. Sociedade e Estado, 37(2), 435–456. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-6992-202237020003 Amaro, F., Bastos, A., Cruz, J., & Proença, I. (2023). Mind the Gap: The Effects of Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap on Income and Poverty. Journal of Poverty, 00(00), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2023.2235351 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 Ferrão, M. E., & Vieira, M. T. (2023). Differential item functioning of material deprivation assessment in households with or without children. PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0290112. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290112 Madeira, J., Afonso, T., Ferrão, M. E., & Couto, A. P. (2023). Quantification of poverty and territorial cohesion: An exploratory study. 30th APDR Conference, 20-21 de julho. |