Measuring Child Poverty: Can we do better?

Bradshaw, J.

Measuring Child Poverty: Can we do better?

Bradshaw, J.

Authors

J. Bradshaw

Abstract

In June 2012 when the government published the Households Below Average Income dataset for 2010/11, it announced at the same time that it would revisit the question of how we measure child poverty in the UK. In November 2012, a public consultation on the topic was launched when the Department for Work and Pensions issued the document Measuring Child Poverty: a consultation on better measures of child poverty. Jonathan Bradshaw looks at the key aspects of the various dimensions that the government has selected for inclusion, assesses their appropriateness for inclusion in any metric of child poverty and presents the shortcomings of the proposed new measure.

Citation

Bradshaw, J. (2013). Measuring Child Poverty: Can we do better?. Poverty, 144(Spring 2013), 6-9

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Mar 1, 2013
Deposit Date	Jul 31, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Jul 29, 2014
Journal	Poverty : journal of the Child Poverty Action Group.
Print ISSN	0032-5856
Publisher	Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	144
Issue	Spring 2013
Pages	6-9
Publisher URL	http://www.cpag.org.uk/content/measuring-child-poverty-can-we-do-better