Project CEMAPRE internal
| Title | A measure of child exposure to household material deprivation in the EU, Year V (2025) |
| Participants | Patricia M 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. 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); • The methodology for ensuring measurement invariance (Vieira et al., 2024); • Empirical analysis of determinants influencing children's exposure to household material deprivation (Amaro et al., 2023); and • Application of analysis of variance to assess the statistical significance of territorial region as a factor in material deprivation (Madeira et al., 2023). The 2025 Plan includes the completion of activities carried over from 2024 and the transfer of knowledge regarding the methods in use. 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. Margaça, C., & Ferrão, M. E. (2024). An overview of item response theory in social psychology research. Submitted for Publication. Vieira, M. T., Costa, P. M., & Ferrão, M. E. (2024). Analyzing measurement invariance in material deprivation: evidence from the EU-SILC 2020. Submitted for Publication. |