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Trends in Child Poverty in Sweden

Parental and Child Reports

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ID12958664
AuthorsCarina Mood (Institute for Futures Studies, corresponding author), Jan O Jonsson (0000-0003-0410-7166, Institute for Futures Studies)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue3
Pages825-854
Publication date2015-09-23
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/s12187-015-9337-z
PMID27489573
OpenAlexW1711989126
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited33

We use several family-based indicators of household poverty as well as child-reported economic resources and problems to unravel child poverty trends in Sweden. Our results show that absolute (bread-line) household income poverty, as well as economic deprivation, increased with the recession 1991-96, then reduced and has remained largely unchanged since 2006. Relative income poverty has however increased since the mid-1990s. When we measure child poverty by young people's own reports, we find few trends between 2000 and 2011. The material conditions appear to have improved and relative poverty has changed very little if at all, contrasting the development of household relative poverty. This contradictory pattern may be a consequence of poor parents distributing relatively more of the household income to their children in times of economic duress, but future studies should scrutinze potentially delayed negative consequences as poor children are lagging behind their non-poor peers. Our methodological conclusion is that although parental and child reports are partly substitutable, they are also complementary, and the simultaneous reporting of different measures is crucial to get a full understanding of trends in child poverty

Basic needs · Child poverty · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Great recession · Labour economics · Lagging · Poverty · Poverty threshold · Recession · Socioeconomics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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Unique citing works20
Citations per year2
Citation span2016 - 2026 (11)
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