Comparison of Child Poverty Measures: Looking for Consensus

Erlangga Landiyanto

Child Indicators Research, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, No 2, 35-66

Abstract: Abstract There are various child poverty measures. Child poverty can be observed indirectly from resources perspectives and the direct concept of poverty, focusing on outcomes. The differences in child poverty concepts contribute to the variation of child poverty measures. This paper reports a comparison of three child poverty methodologies: monetary and multidimensional child poverty (absolute and relative deprivation). For this purpose, Indonesia was selected as a case study. The paper uses Indonesian family Life survey (IFLS) data wave 5 that was collected in 2015. The comparison was conducted using the combination of cross-tabulation, the analysis of sensitivity, specificity and predicted values and receiver operating characteristics curves. The comparison confirms that each method informs child poverty differently. There are small overlaps among the measures, and relative deprivation seems to be a ‘better’ measure for Indonesian context.

Keywords: Child Poverty; Deprivations; Specificity; Sensitivity; ROC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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