Child deprivation in Australia: A child‐focused approach

Saunders, Peter; Brown, Judith E.; Bedford, Megan; Naidoo, Yuvisthi

doi:10.1002/ajs4.61

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“…In line with previous studies, adults and children perceived that minimum needs extended beyond basic subsistence needs. Fulfilling customary social roles, obligations, and being able to participate in contemporary Hong Kong society are considered to be necessities (Main & Bradshaw, ; Redmond et al, ; Saunders et al, ). The generational differences between adults and children were also manifested within the same household.…”

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“…There is an increasing recognition of the value of measuring children's own views about their daily lives and well‐being (Main & Pople, ; Redmond et al, ). However, there has been only limited evidence of child‐derived deprivation indicators (Barnes & Wright, ; Main & Bradshaw, ; Saunders et al, ). Such a focus on children's own perspectives not only takes into consideration children's feelings but also supports children's rights as enshrined by the normative framework of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Main, ; Minujin et al, ; Rees & Main, ; Ridge, ; United Nations Children's Fund Office of Research, ).…”

Section: A Consensual Approach To Measure Poverty and Deprivationmentioning

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“…Their resources are so seriously below those commanded by the average individual or family that they are, in effect, excluded from ordinary living patterns and activities.Townsend defines poverty as a relative and multidimensional sociological phenomenon. This approach has laid the foundation for poverty studies in the United Kingdom (Bramley & Bailey, ; Dermott & Main, ; Gordon & Pantazis, ; Gordon et al, ; Pantazis et al, ) and extended its influence into different parts of the world informing poverty studies in Europe (Halleröd, Larsson, Gordon, & Ritakallio, ; Nolan & Whelan, ; van den Bosch, ), Australia (Saunders, Bedford, Brown, Naidoo, & Adamson, ; Saunders et al, ), Asia (Abe & Pantazis, ; Saunders & Chen, ; Saunders et al, ), and Africa (Nandy & Pomati, ; Noble, Wright, Magasela, & Ratcliffe, ). For instance, Chow's () pioneering study of poverty in an affluent city made use of Townsend's relative deprivation approach and developed culturally relevant deprivation indicators reflecting the “style of living” in Hong Kong.…”

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Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong

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There is growing interest in child poverty and well‐being in East Asia. However, empirical studies predominantly adopt “expert‐led” measures (such as adult‐derived child deprivation measures), which usually assume that parents or guardians provide reliable reports about all their children's needs and that the allocation of household resources is effectively equal across all members. Studies of child poverty from a child‐rights or child‐agency perspective are rare in East Asia. Using a consensual deprivation approach, this article examines the extent of agreement between children and adults about which child possessions and activities constitute necessities of life in Hong Kong. The data are drawn from the second wave of the Strategic Public Policy Research project—Trends and Implications of Poverty and Social Disadvantages in Hong Kong: A Multi‐disciplinary and Longitudinal Study. A total of 595 adults and 636 school‐aged children from the first wave of the study were reinterviewed and asked if they considered 16 possessions and activities as essential for children in contemporary Hong Kong. The results showed that adults were significantly more likely to believe that almost all material and social deprivation items were necessities compared with their children, even after controlling for individual‐level factors (i.e., gender and birthplace) and household‐level factors (i.e., number of children in the household, number of working adults, and household income). The findings highlight the importance of incorporating children's views into our understanding of child poverty.

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Section: A Consensual Approach To Measure Poverty and Deprivationmentioning

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Section: A Consensual Approach To Measure Poverty and Deprivationmentioning

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Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong

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“…There are four key benefits of applying a child participatory wellbeing framework to guide indicator selection to longitudinal analysis. Firstly, doing so ensures that the measures have direct relevance, and capture the aspects of life that matter, for children (De Berry et al, 2003;Fattore et al, 2009;González-Carrasco et al, 2019;Redmond et al, 2016;Saunders et al, 2019). This ultimately means that we obtain a more refined and nuanced conceptualisation of wellbeing that is directly applicable to the target population.…”

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“…Finally, while measuring a slightly different construct, participatory approaches have been applied to measure child material deprivation using the consensus approach by Townsend (1987) in a number of contexts throughout the world (e.g. Gross-Manos, 2015;Main & Pople, 2011;Saunders et al, 2019;Swords et al, 2011). To the authors' best knowledge, there are no studies that have previously applied an adult or child participatory wellbeing framework for longitudinal analysis.…”

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Measuring What Matters: Drawing on a Participatory Wellbeing Framework and Existing Data to Assess Child Wellbeing Outcomes Over Time

Sollis

Edwards

2022

Soc Indic Res

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A growing body of research highlights the importance of increasing children’s involvement in the measurement of their wellbeing. Using data from Australia, this paper outlines the first known attempt to apply an existing participatory wellbeing framework to an existing longitudinal dataset to measure child wellbeing over time. This approach enables analysis of the key areas where life could be improved for children based on what they themselves value, an examination of whether children are having wellbeing needs met in multiple dimensions and over time, and an exploration into the later wellbeing impacts of early life experiences. The results highlighted some areas of concern for children and young people in Australia, including the low proportion meeting the wellbeing threshold in health, and the high level of inequality within material basics when this is examined over time. We apply the indicator set to examine the implications of being born into monetary poverty on later wellbeing outcomes. Being born into poverty was associated with poorer outcomes in almost all wellbeing areas (Loved & Safe, Material Basics, Learning and Participating) by age 6–7 years. While some of these associations diminished as children got older, being born into poverty had a continued relationship with poorer outcomes in Material Basics and Participating in all time points examined (up until age 12–13). In sum, this paper provides an illustration of how a child participatory wellbeing framework can be applied to a longitudinal dataset to measure wellbeing over time, highlighting how this approach can help to ensure policy more effectively creates measurable and meaningful change for children and young people.

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Are We Getting Closer to Consensus? An Analysis of Changes in Socially Perceived Necessities Over Time in Japan

Abe

2024

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The measurement of poverty using the material deprivation scale has become widespread throughout the world. One of the technical challenges in constructing the material deprivation scale is the identification of socially perceived necessities. Researchers have used methods ranging from focus groups to separate public opinion surveys to develop a list of socially perceived necessities. However, material deprivation is a relative concept. As society undergoes economic, demographic and political change, the list needs to be reviewed for relevance. The aim of this study was to examine the stability of perceptions of children's necessities in Japan at a time when public awareness of child poverty in Japan has risen sharply. The results of the analysis show that, using the 50% criterion, the list of socially perceived necessities for children has been surprisingly stable over 20 years. However, there has been a statistically significant change in the public's perception of necessity for 16 of the 25 items, even after controlling for age, gender, income and whether they have children. Furthermore, the analysis shows that although the consensus between genders and between income quintile groups is fairly stable or converging, there is a greater divergence in the consensus between age groups and between respondents with and without children. In a society with increasing numbers of elderly and childless people, we need to be increasingly careful that the items selected for the deprivation scale not only meet the 50% criteria, but are also agreed by different segments of the population.

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Child deprivation in Australia: A child‐focused approach

Cited by 29 publications

References 36 publications

Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong

Children's and adults' perceptions of child necessities in Hong Kong

Measuring What Matters: Drawing on a Participatory Wellbeing Framework and Existing Data to Assess Child Wellbeing Outcomes Over Time

Are We Getting Closer to Consensus? An Analysis of Changes in Socially Perceived Necessities Over Time in Japan

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