Various Aspects of Poverty Among Families with Children

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of financial and deprivation poverty among families with children, according to a survey of households conducted in 2017 by the RANEPA Institute for Social Analysis and Prediction. We identified groups of households with children with high risk of financial and deprivation poverty: multiple-child families, single-parent families, families with low levels of parental education, and families with an unemployed adult. We also show the risks that health-related deprivation will be higher for families with children that include members with disabilities, while rural and small-town residents have an increased risk of housing-related deprivation. We note that the risks of deprivation poverty are linked substantially to the risks of financial poverty.

Keywords:

• families with children
• poverty
• deprivation
• privation
• social exclusion
• standard of living

Notes

1. Rosstat, Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskie indikatory bednosti v 2013–2016 godakh (2017); Rosstat, “O sootnoshenii denezhnykh dokhodov naseleniia s velichinoi prozhitochnogo minimum ai chislennosti maloimushchego naseleniia v tselom po Rossiiskoi Federatsii v III kvartale 2017 goda.”

2. The term “family” is used here as a synonym for “household”: individuals living together in a joint livelihood arrangement.

3. Hereinafter, unless otherwise indicated, our discussion of level of financial poverty for various types of households with children takes these income adjustments into account.

4. This table presents log coefficients, where the dependent variable is an indicator that takes the value 1 if a family with children experiences financial poverty and 0 otherwise.

5. This table presents log coefficients, where the dependent variable is an indicator that takes the value 1 if a family with children is deprived in a certain category and 0 otherwise.

6. The methodology in constructing the “health” deprivation indicator treats all families with disabled children as deprived in this category.

7. This table presents log coefficients, where the dependent variable is an indicator that takes the value 1 if a family with children experiences multidimensional poverty and 0 otherwise.

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E.E. Grishina

E.E. Grishina is a candidate of economic sciences at the Institute of Social Analysis and Prediction at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.