2 Shoes: Two pairs of properly fitting 12 Friends: Invite friends around to shoes (including a pair of all-weather play and eat from time to time shoes) 3 Fresh fruit and vegetables once 13 School trips: Participate in a day school trips and school events that cost money 4 Three meals: Three meals a day 14 Home work: Suitable place to study or do homework 5 Meat: One meal with meat, chicken or 15 Holidays: Go on holiday away fish (or vegetarian equivalent) at least from home at 1 week per once a day year 6 Books: Books at home suitable for 16 Unmet need for GP specialist their age 7 Leisure: Regular leisure activity 17 Reasons for not consulting GP (swimming, playing an instrument, specialist youth organization etc.) 8 Equipment: Outdoor leisure 18 Unmet need for dentist equipment (bicycle, roller skates, etc.) 9 Outdoor: Outdoor in the 19 Reasons for not consulting neighbourhood where children can dentist play safely 10 Games: Indoor games (educational baby toys, building blocks, board games, etc.) Source: EU SILC, 2009. At the time of writing, the Social Protection Committee is reviewing these with a view to developing a new deprivation index. Meanwhile, for UNICEF’s Report Card 10 an index has been produced based on these items. Figure 3 gives the proportion of children living in households lacking 3 or 4 child deprivation items. In Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland deprivation rates are low, with almost no children reporting lacking 3 of these items. In contrast almost half of the children in Bulgaria lack 3 items, and over half of the children in Romania do. Figure 2: Child deprivation rates EU SILC 2009 Source: Some developed countries (Ireland and the UK) have gone further and adopted a combination of income poverty and deprivation in a so-called consistent or overlapping poverty measure. Given the complexity of relative representations of poverty, and the
2 Shoes: Two pairs of properly fitting shoes (including a pair of all-weather shoes) 12 Friends: Invite friends around to play and eat from time to time 3 Fresh fruit and vegetables once a day 13 School trips: Participate in school trips and school events that cost money 4 Three meals: Three meals a day 14 Home work: Suitable place to study or do homework 5 Meat: One meal with meat, chicken or fish (or vegetarian equivalent) at least once a day 15 Holidays: Go on holiday away from home at 1 week per year 6 Books: Books at home suitable for their age 16 Unmet need for GP specialist 7 Leisure: Regular leisure activity (swimming, playing an instrument, youth organization etc.) 17 Reasons for not consulting GP specialist 8 Equipment: Outdoor leisure equipment (bicycle, roller skates, etc.) 18 Unmet need for dentist 9 Outdoor: Outdoor in the neighbourhood where children can play safely 19 Reasons for not consulting dentist 10 Games: Indoor games (educational baby toys, building blocks, board games, etc.) Source: EU SILC, 2009. At the time of writing, the Social Protection Committee is reviewing these with a view to developing a new deprivation index. Meanwhile, for UNICEF’s Report Card 10 an index has been produced based on these items. Figure 3 gives the proportion of children living in households lacking 3 or 4 child deprivation items. In Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland deprivation rates are low, with almost no children reporting lacking 3 of these items. In contrast almost half of the children in Bulgaria lack 3 items, and over half of the children in Romania do. Figure 2: Child deprivation rates EU SILC 2009 Source: Some developed countries (Ireland and the UK) have gone further and adopted a combination of income poverty and deprivation in a so-called consistent or overlapping poverty measure. Given the complexity of relative representations of poverty, and the
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