Adaptive Deprivation Scales in a Multi-National Context

The European Child Deprivation Indicators

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ID12958648
AuthorsNicholas Bailey (0000-0002-1618-5949, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Anne-Catherine Guio (0000-0002-7490-5529, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)
Year2022
Volume15
Issue6
Pages2335-2362
Publication date2022-06-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChild Indicators Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-8988 • E-ISSN: 1874-897X
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s12187-022-09949-x
OpenAlexW4282020122
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

In 2018, EU Member States adopted a 17-item scale to measure child deprivation and monitor progress in their fight against child poverty. This indicator will be collected in future every three years via an ad hoc module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Previous research has shown how deprivation measures can be implemented more efficiently and with minimal information loss using adaptive testing, at least in the context of a single country. This paper examines the scope to implement the adaptive approach in a multi-national context with wide variations in deprivation levels and potentially in cultural preferences for consumption. The paper shows that the adaptive approach works effectively in this context. Time savings of around 40 per cent can be achieved with very minimal information losses both at the EU level and at the level of each individual country. Time savings are much greater in countries with lower deprivation. The adaptive approach may therefore offer particular advantages in a multi-national context as it can provide a consistent measure for all participating countries while targeting survey time and resources where they are most needed

Child poverty · Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · European union · Geography · International economics · Poverty · Public economics · Relative deprivation · Scale (ratio · Scope (computer science · Social deprivation · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology

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