Child Poverty and Child Well-Being in International Perspective
Domains
Components
Indicators
Material well-being
Monetary poverty
Relative child poverty rate
Relative child poverty gap
Material deprivation
Deprivation index
Low family affluence rate
Health
Health at birth
Infant mortality rate
Low birth-weight rate
Preventive health
Overall immunization rate
Childhood mortality
Child death rate (age 1–19)
Education
Participation
Participation rate: early childhood education
Participation rate: further education (age 15–19)
NEET rate (% age 15–19 not in education, employment or training)
Achievement
Average PISA scores in reading, maths and science
Behaviours and risks
Health behaviours
Being overweight
Eating fruit
Eating breakfast
Taking exercise
Risk behaviours
Teenage fertility rate
Smoking
Alcohol
Drugs
Exposure to violence
Bullying
Fighting
Housing and environment
Housing
Persons per room
Multiple housing problems
Environmental safety
Homicide rate
Air pollution
Subjective well-being
Life satisfaction
Life satisfaction
Relationships
Easy to talk to mothers
Easy to talk to fathers
Classmate are kind and helpful
Subjective education
Pressured by school work
Young people liking school a lot
Subjective health
Health fair or poor
Table 4.2 gives the rank order on each of the domains and the average overall rank order (Australia, Japan and New Zealand are not included because of too much missing data). The first observation to note for the purposes of this analysis is that although the rank on material well-being does not coincide with the overall rank, there is nevertheless some degree of coincidence – the top five countries on material well-being are also the top five countries on overall well-being. There is also coincidence with the bottom four countries.
Table 4.2
Child well-being rank in rich nations by domain and overall average