COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POVERTY IN FAMILIES WITH A DISABLED CHILD AND FAMILIES WITH NON-DISABLED CHILDREN IN POLAND IN THE YEARS 2014 AND 2016

Komorowska Olga (), Kozłowski Arkadiusz () and Słaby Teresa ()
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Komorowska Olga: Department of Statistics, Faculty of Management, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland .
Kozłowski Arkadiusz: Department of Statistics, Faculty of Management, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland .
Słaby Teresa: Warsaw Management University, Warsaw, Poland .

Statistics in Transition New Series, 2019, vol. 20, issue 3, 97-117

Abstract: The presence of a child with disabilities in a family presents more challenging conditions than the presence of a non-disabled child. One of the difficulties is of financial nature. One of the parents often has to give up their job to care for the child, which shrinks the household income. At the same time, the family has higher expenses resulting from, e.g. costs of treatment. All this increases the risk of falling into poverty. The goal of this paper is to analyse the financial situation of households with a disabled child, mainly in the context of poverty, and compare it to the financial situation of households with non-disabled children. The study is based on data from Polish Household Budget Survey, covering two years, 2014 and 2016. The study revealed that families with a disabled child are generally poorer than families with non-disabled children. The financial situation improved over the studied period in both types of families, but the improvement in the families with a disabled child was much greater. The main factor in reducing the risk of poverty in both types of families is the education attainment level of the reference person (the household head), which should be at least upper secondary.

Keywords: households with a disabled child; factors related to poverty; Household Budget Survey; logistic regression. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.21307/stattrans-2019-026

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