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dc.contributor.authorHeshmati, Almasen
dc.contributor.authorBajalan, Chemen S.J.en
dc.contributor.authorTausch, Arnoen
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-25-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:28:53Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:28:53Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/34778-
dc.description.abstractStarting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and quantitatively measures of child well-being. While the original UNICEF studies simply added together the ranks on different measurement scales, we present a much more sophisticated approach, with the first of our indicators being a non-parametric measure while the remaining two are parametric. In the non-parametric index of child welfare, the well-being indicators are given same weights in their aggregation to form different components from which an overall index is being constructed. Two different forms of the parametric index are estimated by using principal component analysis. The first model uses a pool of all indicators without classification of the indicators by type of well-being, while the second model estimates first the sub-components separately and then uses the share of variance explained by each principal component to compute the weighted average of each component and their aggregation into an index of overall child well-being. The indices indicate which countries have the best system of child welfare and show how child well-being varies across countries and regions. The indices are composed of six well-being components: material, health and safety, educational well-being, family and peer relationships, behaviours and risks and subjective well-being. Each of the components is generated from a number of well-being sub-indicators.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3203en
dc.subject.jelD31en
dc.subject.ddc360en
dc.subject.keywordChild well-beingen
dc.subject.keywordmultidimensional indexen
dc.subject.keywordprincipal componenten
dc.subject.keywordchild povertyen
dc.subject.keywordchild outcomesen
dc.subject.keywordOECDen
dc.subject.stwKinderen
dc.subject.stwLebensstandarden
dc.subject.stwArmuten
dc.subject.stwSozialer Indikatoren
dc.subject.stwEntwicklungsländeren
dc.subject.stwSchwellenländeren
dc.subject.stwTransformationsstaatenen
dc.subject.stwIndustriestaatenen
dc.titleMeasurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn559459327en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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