National risk factors of child deprivation in Europe

Anne-Catherine Guio, Eric Marlier, Frank Vanderbroucke, Pim Verbunt

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Abstract

Child poverty has featured on the agenda of the EU for many years. In 2013, a recommendation on ‘Investing in children: breaking the cycle of disadvantage’ was adopted (European Commission, 2013).
It calls on Member States to ‘reinforce statistical capacity … where needed and feasible, particularly concerning child deprivation’. The best way to provide accurate information on the actual living
conditions of children in the EU, without making assumptions about the sharing of resources within the household, is to develop child-specific deprivation indicators – that is, indicators based on information on the specific situations of children, which may differ from those of their parents. In 2018, the EU made a significant step in this direction by adopting the child-specific deprivation indicator proposed by Guio et al. (2018), using EU-SILC data.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImproving the understanding of poverty and social exclusion in Europe
EditorsAnne-Catherine Guio, Eric Marlier, Brian Nolan
Place of PublicationLuxembourg
PublisherPublications Office of the European Union
Chapter13
Pages219-234
ISBN (Electronic)978-92-76-34284-7
ISBN (Print)978-92-76-34286-1
Publication statusPublished - 17 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameEurostat Statistical Working Papers
PublisherPublications Office of the European Union

Keywords

  • material deprivation
  • Europe
  • Net-SILC
  • poverty
  • social exclusion
  • Child-deprivation

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