Child Poverty in the European Union: the Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis Approach (EU-MODA)

Poverty has serious consequences for children’s well-being as well as for their achievements in adult life. The Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis for the European Union (EU-MODA) compares the living conditions of children across the EU member states. Rooted in the established multidimensiona...

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Published in:Child indicators research 2016-06, Vol.9 (2), p.335-356
Main Authors: Chzhen, Yekaterina, de Neubourg, Chris, Plavgo, Ilze, de Milliano, Marlous
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age differences
Analysis
Child and School Psychology
Child poverty
Childhood Needs
Children & youth
Childrens rights
Deprivation
Early Childhood Education
Economic wellbeing
Living conditions
Measurement
Poverty
Quality of Life Research
Social Sciences
Social Work
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Summary:Poverty has serious consequences for children’s well-being as well as for their achievements in adult life. The Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis for the European Union (EU-MODA) compares the living conditions of children across the EU member states. Rooted in the established multidimensional poverty measurement tradition, EU-MODA contributes to it by using the international framework of child rights to inform the construction of indicators and dimensions essential to children’s material well-being, taking into account the needs of children at various stages of their life cycle. The study adds to the literature on monetary child poverty and material deprivation in the EU by analysing several age-specific and rights-based dimensions of child deprivation individually and simultaneously, constructing multidimensional deprivation indices, and studying the overlaps between monetary poverty and multidimensional deprivation. The paper demonstrates the application of the EU-MODA methodology to three diverse countries: Finland, Romania and the United Kingdom. The analysis uses data from the ad hoc material deprivation module of the EU-SILC 2009 because it provides comparable micro-data for EU member states and contains child-specific deprivation indicators.
ISSN:1874-897X
1874-8988
DOI:10.1007/s12187-015-9321-7