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I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates
The last decade has seen strong developments in child poverty measurement. Children are largely recognised to have age-specific needs, which has led to the development of child-specific poverty measures. One of the current ongoing debates is how best to collect that information. Questions regarding...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10025051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10025-1 |
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author | Lanau, Alba Cama, Mitieli Gordon, Dave |
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description | The last decade has seen strong developments in child poverty measurement. Children are largely recognised to have age-specific needs, which has led to the development of child-specific poverty measures. One of the current ongoing debates is how best to collect that information. Questions regarding child deprivation are most often answered by a reference adult and assume that adult respondents provide accurate reports about their children’s needs. These assumptions have largely gone untested. Making use of a unique feature of the Fijian Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2019/20), this paper explores the effect of respondent selection on child deprivation estimates. We compare three approaches to the selection of adult respondents commonly used in survey design: the children’s mother, the household head, and a random adult respondent in the household. We find that adults largely agree on whether children are deprived of specific items. However, in between 5 to 24% of households (depending on the indicator), adults provide different responses regarding whether children have specific items. Despite these differences, respondent selection does not substantially alter child multiple deprivation estimates or the socio-demographic characteristics of the deprived child population. The article will be of interest to those designing surveys or questionnaires to measure child poverty and children’s unmet needs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12187-023-10025-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-100250512023-03-21 I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates Lanau, Alba Cama, Mitieli Gordon, Dave Child Indic Res Article The last decade has seen strong developments in child poverty measurement. Children are largely recognised to have age-specific needs, which has led to the development of child-specific poverty measures. One of the current ongoing debates is how best to collect that information. Questions regarding child deprivation are most often answered by a reference adult and assume that adult respondents provide accurate reports about their children’s needs. These assumptions have largely gone untested. Making use of a unique feature of the Fijian Household Income and Expenditure Survey (2019/20), this paper explores the effect of respondent selection on child deprivation estimates. We compare three approaches to the selection of adult respondents commonly used in survey design: the children’s mother, the household head, and a random adult respondent in the household. We find that adults largely agree on whether children are deprived of specific items. However, in between 5 to 24% of households (depending on the indicator), adults provide different responses regarding whether children have specific items. Despite these differences, respondent selection does not substantially alter child multiple deprivation estimates or the socio-demographic characteristics of the deprived child population. The article will be of interest to those designing surveys or questionnaires to measure child poverty and children’s unmet needs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12187-023-10025-1. Springer Netherlands 2023-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10025051/ /pubmed/37363707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10025-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Lanau, Alba Cama, Mitieli Gordon, Dave I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates |
title | I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates |
title_full | I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates |
title_fullStr | I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates |
title_full_unstemmed | I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates |
title_short | I Don’t Care Who You Are: Adult Respondent Selection Does Not Alter Child Deprivation Estimates |
title_sort | i don’t care who you are: adult respondent selection does not alter child deprivation estimates |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10025051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37363707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10025-1 |
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