Child Well-Being in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Richardson, D. L.; Hoelscher, Petra; Bradshaw, Jonathan

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“…What is perhaps surprising, in this and other studies (e.g. Richardson et al 2008), is that the highest levels of general satisfaction are found in Kyrgyzstan, the poorest country, and a much lower level of general satisfaction in Georgia compared with the other three countries. We return to this in the discussion below.…”

Section: General Satisfactioncontrasting

confidence: 48%

“…Interestingly, on a normalised index of subjective well-being for young people for Surviving the Transformation 217 21 CEE and CIS countries Kyrgyzstan had the highest score, ?1 SD above the meanwhile Kazakhstan was just under -0.5 SD below the mean and Armenia -1.10 with Georgia having the mean score (Richardson et al 2008). We can only speculate as to why people are more satisfied in Kyrgyzstan than would be expected given its level of economic development.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Subjective satisfaction has to be seen as the ultimate validating measure, on the argument that people should be more satisfied in a tolerable than an intolerable society (Land et al 2007;Richardson et al 2008). This is not a paper about subjective satisfaction; however, in the same way that Durkheim's Suicide (1952) was not a treatise about suicide.…”

Section: Developing a Sociological Model Of Subjective Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Abbott 2007; Abbott and Sapsford 2006;Wallace 2007, 2009a; Burawoy 1997Burawoy , 2000Burawoy , 2001Burawoy et al 2000;Shevchenko 2009;Rose 2009;Wallace and Abbott 2009). However, much less is known about the impact of the transformation on the life-satisfaction of those who have survived in other CIS countries, including the Central Asian Republics and the Caucasus, although the very limited research, mostly looking at the Central Asian Republics, suggests that there has been a negative impact (Abbott 2002;Abbott and Wallace 2009a;Cockerham et al 2004;De la Sablonniere et al 2009;Galip 2009;Kanji 2007;Namazie and Sandfrey 2002;Nazpary 2002;Richardson et al 2008;Wallace and Abbott 2009). An index of well-being for children, developed for 21 CEE and CIS countries (excluding the CEE countries that joined the EU in 2003) and using a range of objective and subjective indicators, suggests that the four countries considered here are below the regional average in this respect, with Kazakhstan being marginally better than the other three countries (Richardson et al 2008).…”

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Surviving the Transformation: Social Quality in Central Asia and the Caucuses

2010

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This paper develops a sociologically informed understanding of what influences the lives and life-choices of people living in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (Central Asian Republics) and Armenia and Georgia (the Caucasus), four of the successor states of the Soviet Union that suffered significant social and economic changes following the collapse of the Union in 1991. The focus is on the nature of these societies for their citizens; ultimately we are concerned to understand what makes a society liveable for all, what type of society enables people to be generally satisfied with their lives. To do this we use the Social Quality model to derive indicators from which to model what makes for a liveable or at least tolerable society. The model is validated by reference to subjective satisfaction-how people feel about life in general-as the ultimate outcome indicator of individual well-being. The data we use were collected as part of a broader study of living conditions, lifestyles and health in eight of the successor states of the Soviet Union, the Confederation of Independent States (CIS).

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Section: General Satisfactioncontrasting

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“…The first was a comparison of child well-being in the European Union (EU) 25 countries (Bradshaw, Hoelscher and Richardson 2007). Richardson, Hoelscher and Bradshaw (2008) did a comparison of child well-being in the Central and Eastern European Countries and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) countries. This was followed by a revision of the EU index this time covering 27 countries (Bradshaw and Richardson 2009).…”

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Child Well-being in the Pacific Rim

Lau

Bradshaw

2010

Child Ind Res

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This study extends previous efforts to compare the well-being of children using multidimensional indicators derived from sample survey and administrative series to thirteen countries in the Pacific Rim. The framework for the analysis of child well-being is to organise 46 indicators into 21 components and organise the components into 6 domains: material situation, health, education, subjective well-being, living environment, as well as risk and safety. Overall, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan have the highest child well-being and Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines the lowest. However, there are substantial variations between the domains. Japan and Korea perform best on the material well-being of children and also do well on health and education but they have the lowest subjective well-being among their children by some margin. There is a relationship between child well-being and GDP per capita but children in China have higher well-being than you would expect given their GDP and children in Australia have lower well-being. The analysis is constrained by missing data particularly that the Health Behaviour of School-Aged Children Survey is not undertaken in any of these countries.

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The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe: An Investigation into Overlap of Deprivations

Roelen¹,

Notten

2013

Poverty &Amp; Public Policy

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Moral, efficiency, and rights-based arguments have sparked widespread acknowledgement in both academic and policy circles that children deserve a special focus in poverty measurement. Children can be considered to have a "differential experience" of poverty in childhood, setting their situation apart from adults as well as from other children depending on their life-stage. The European Union (EU) is among those bodies that have recognized the need for child-focused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing, testing, and comparing single indicators of child well-being across member states. In this article, we seek to add to this debate by providing a micro-analysis of the breadth of child poverty in the EU by analyzing the overlap of deprivations across monetary and multidimensional indicators of poverty. Thereby, we aim to gain insight into the breadth of child poverty and degree of overlap between measures of monetary and multidimensional poverty in the EU. Particular attention will be paid to the investigation of cross-country and cross-domain differences. Using the 2007 wave of the EU-SILC data, we compare the EU monetary "at-risk-ofpoverty" indicator to a range of child deprivation indicators at domain level in four EU Member States (Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom). Overall, the article's findings provide a strong call for the need to take a multidimensional approach toward the measurement of child poverty in the EU context. Size and group differences between children faced with income poverty and/or deprivation in other domains are considerable and underline the need to take a broader perspective to identify those that are vulnerable. Overlap analysis of income and domain poverty suggests considerable mismatch across the board, regardless of the particular country under consideration. This suggests a considerable breadth of child poverty in the EU, meaning that deprivation in monetary and non-monetary terms does not seem to be concentrated on a few particular groups but rather spread out across the population with large numbers of children likely to face deprivation in a few domains. Although dependent on the domain and country under consideration, single parenthood, living in a rented dwelling, low work intensity, and income poverty are found significantly and considerably the risk to poverty.

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Child Well-Being in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Cited by 61 publications

References 12 publications

Surviving the Transformation: Social Quality in Central Asia and the Caucuses

Surviving the Transformation: Social Quality in Central Asia and the Caucuses

Child Well-being in the Pacific Rim

The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe: An Investigation into Overlap of Deprivations

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