1. INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Impact of Poverty and Social Exclusion on Children’s Lives and their Well-being 8th – 9th September 2008 Bratislava CHILD POVERTY – A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT Amélia Bastos School of Economics and Management Technical University of Lisbon Carla Machado School of Economics and Management CEMAPRE Technical University of Lisbon

2. Outline Motivation Methodological framework Results from the empirical analysis Consequences derived from the principal findings 1 2 3 4

3. Motivation 1 Dimension of child poverty Consequences of living in poverty for children Ethics and social justice

4. Methodological framework – 1/2 2 Data: 5000 observations Child – statistical unit of analysis Child poverty: multidimensional concept Material and non-material issues Deprivation – domains: Education, Health, Housing and Social Integration Fuzzy conceptualization – Fuzzy Set Theory

5. Methodological framework – 2/2 2 Measures of child poverty Composite Index of Deprivation Risk of Deprivation Evaluation of socio-demographic and economic attributes – Probit model

6. 3 Results from the empirical analysis - 1/3 Composite Index of Deprivation (CID) Social Integration is the domain that most contributes to child deprivation Education is on the opposite side

7. Having illiterate parents CID by socio-demographic attributes emphasizes the importance of: Being black Living in lone parent’s families Living without any of the parents 3 Results from the empirical analysis - 2/3

8. Deprived children: deprivation pattern and attributes evaluation 3 Results from the empirical analysis - 3/3 CID by economic attributes emphasizes the importance of: Living with unemployed parents Having parents with low professional occupations Being income poor Deprivation risk 20% of children are at-risk-of-deprivation

9. Importance of measures targeted to specific groups Deprivation and income poverty do not overlap Importance of the child-cantered analysis Consequences derived from the principal findings 4