Child Material Well-being

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About

The dimension of material well-being is important because there is evidence from many countries that Children who experience Childhood poverty are more vulnerable. They are more likely to be in poor health, to have learning and behavioural difficulties, to underachieve in school, to become pregnant at too early an age, to have lower skills and aspirations, to be low paid, unemployed, and welfare dependent.^[1] Many children from low-income families do not fall into any of this categories but, on average, such children are likely to be at a decided and demonstrable disadvantage.

Family affluence and health

The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study and many other found that across time and across countries, Health outcomes are importantly affected by socioeconomic characteristics of parents. Generally, health outcomes are better for children of parents with higher socioeconomic status. Family affluence in HSBC was measured through the number of vehicles a family possessed, having an own bedroom, having and how often been on family holiday in the past 12 month and the number of computers in a family.^[2] 

Indicators of Child Material well-being

UNICEF Child-Wellbeing measure

• Relative income poverty
  
  • Absolute income poverty
    
  • Households without jobs
    
• Reported deprivation
  
  • few educational resources
    
  • fewer than 10 books at home
    
  • low family affluence

This list is not extensive and the use of indicators may be limited by data availability and quality.

See also

Childhood Poverty
Child well-being
Human Well-Being
Material Well-Being
Child Health and safety
Child Educational well-being
Child Family and peer relationships
Child Behaviour and risks
Child Subjective well-being
UNICEF Child-Wellbeing measure

References

1. ↑ http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc7_eng.pdf
2. ↑ Boudreau, Brock and Poulin, Christiane (2009),"An Examination of the Validity of the Family Affluence Scale II (FAS II) in a General Adolescent Population of Canada". Social Indicators Research, v94 n1 p29-4, October.http://www.springerlink.com/content/87t2h1068hv05732/