Measuring Child Poverty and Its Uncertainty: A Case Study of 33 European Countries
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Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications “G. Parenti”, University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy
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Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 8204; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198204
Received: 3 September 2020 / Revised: 29 September 2020 / Accepted: 30 September 2020 / Published: 5 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidimensional Child Poverty and Sustainability)
Over the last few years, there has been increased interest in compiling poverty indicators for children, as well as in providing uncertainty measures that are associated with point estimates. In this paper, we provide point, variance, and interval confidence estimates of the at-risk-of-poverty rate indicator for 33 European countries. Using the 2018 EU-SILC survey, we analysed the spatial distribution of poverty by providing graphical representations at the national level. Our results reveal rates of child poverty that are higher than in the national estimates for most of the countries. By considering the computation of standard errors, we used the bootstrap method thanks to its convenient properties. It is worth noting that, for some countries, such as Finland, Belgium, and Ireland, the confidence intervals do not overlap. These results suggest differences among countries not only in terms of child poverty, but also in terms of social protection and the welfare state.
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Benedetti, I.; Betti, G.; Crescenzi, F. Measuring Child Poverty and Its Uncertainty: A Case Study of 33 European Countries. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198204
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Benedetti I, Betti G, Crescenzi F. Measuring Child Poverty and Its Uncertainty: A Case Study of 33 European Countries. Sustainability. 2020; 12(19):8204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198204
Chicago/Turabian StyleBenedetti, Ilaria, Gianni Betti, and Federico Crescenzi. 2020. "Measuring Child Poverty and Its Uncertainty: A Case Study of 33 European Countries" Sustainability 12, no. 19: 8204. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198204
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