The South African index of multiple deprivation for children
Subtitle: census 2001
By: Helen Barnes ... [et al.].
Contributors: Barnes, Helen, 1959-; Rädda barnen (Society); Human Sciences Research Council. Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme.; University of Oxford. Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy.
Publisher: HSRC Press; distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cape Town; [Chicago, Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9780796922168
Subjects: Poor children -- South Africa -- Statistics; Poverty -- South Africa -- Statistical methods; Economic indicators -- South Africa; South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991- -- Regional disparities -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Description: 60% of South African children live in households with annual incomes below $1 360 (2006 value) and mortality and maltreatment rates remain high. In order to realise the rights of all children and tackle child poverty, it is critical that robust measures are developed to quantify the nature and extent of social deprivation experienced by children at sub-national level and thereby accurately identify the areas of greatest need and the most deprived areas. It is also essential that these measures focus specifically on children; separating children out from household level data or data presented for the total population and foregrounding deprivation from a child perspective. This report is a first attempt to generate data of this nature, to map child deprivation at municipal level, in order to inform local level policy and intervention in South Africa. Making use of information available from the 2001 Census about different aspects of deprivation, such as income, employment, education, health and living environment, the authors have combined these domains to form an overall index of multiple deprivations. The model which emerges is of a series of uni-dimensional domains of deprivation which can be combined, with appropriate weighting, into a single child-focused measure of multiple deprivations.
Notes: "Save the Children, Sweden; Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy, University of Oxford; Human Sciences Research Council,Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme"--Prelim.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-66).

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