A Measure of Child Exposure to Household Material Deprivation: Empirical Evidence from the Portuguese EU-SILC

Ferrão, Maria Eugénia; Bastos, Amélia; Alves, Maria Teresa G.

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A Measure of Child Exposure to Household Material Deprivation: Empirical Evidence from the Portuguese EU-SILC

2020-08-04Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Ferrão, Maria Eugénia
dc.contributor.author	Bastos, Amélia
dc.contributor.author	Alves, Maria Teresa G.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-11T15:59:05Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-11T15:59:05Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08-04
dc.description.abstract	Although monitoring and evaluating child poverty has been recognized as important, there is little statistical information focused on children. Because the annual EUStatistics 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 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. Using the 2017 Portuguese sample, we applied graded response models to assess the psychometric properties of the EU-SILC items and fit separate indexes per domain and the composite index. Item selection was based on their characteristic curves and information functions. The results allow for the selection of more informative items for every domain to obtain the composite index. In general, the empirical analysis confirmed the theoretical approach for item selection. The methodology may be directly applied to the full EU dataset or to each country individually.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/s12187-020-09754-4	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/12636
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.relation	CEMAPRE - Centre for Applied Mathematics and Economics
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Child deprivation	pt_PT
dc.subject	Child development	pt_PT
dc.subject	Graded response model	pt_PT
dc.subject	Household poverty	pt_PT
dc.title	A Measure of Child Exposure to Household Material Deprivation: Empirical Evidence from the Portuguese EU-SILC	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.issue	1	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	217	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Child Indicators Research	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	14	pt_PT
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