Measuring Multidimensional Child Poverty: Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Approach

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Although there is no Unified approach about what child poverty is and how it is calculated, but most studies and organizations related to the issue of child poverty, consider it as a multidimensional phenomenon. Proper understanding of the situation of children and teen agers who experience poverty in their lives, can be an important tool for breaking the void circle of poverty and child poverty reduction policies. In this article, multidimensional child poverty and overlapping of children's deprivations in 6 dimensions are investigated. For this purpose, "Justice Measuring Project in Tehran 2011" and "Multiple Poverty and Overlapping of Deprivation Analysis Approach" were used. Results indicate that across the six dimensions, child deprivation rates are highest in facilities, housing, health, nutrition, security and protection and education respectively.79% children in Tehran also are deprived in one or more dimensions out of that six case. The children on average, deprived in one or more dimensions tend to suffer from 1.8 deprivations,. This is 30% of the total deprivations.

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Majlis and Rahbord
Volume 24, Issue 92 - Serial Number 92
January 2018
Pages 205-228

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