The Measurement And Cause Analysis Of Multimensioal Poverty Among Children In China

In 2020,China achieved the great goal of completely eradicating absolute poverty.However,this does not mean the end of China’s poverty alleviation process,but rather marks the beginning of a new phase of poverty alleviation,the post-poverty era.The main goal of the post-poverty era is to alleviate China’s relative poverty and multidimensional poverty problems and achieve the overall goal of common prosperity.Due to the special and complex nature of child poverty,it has attracted the attention of many scholars.However,most of the research has focused on specific child welfare policy issues such as children from low-income families,children with disabilities,and homeless children,and less attention has been paid to poverty among all children.In addition,the earliest studies mostly used household income and consumption to measure child poverty,but the definition of child poverty is not limited to the lack of material resources.Children also face difficulties in education,healthcare,culture,and care,among other areas.Therefore,deeper research is needed on the issue of child poverty.Moreover,although scholars’ research on poverty has shifted from singledimensional poverty to multidimensional poverty,most studies have started from the perspective of regional or household poverty and lack research on children as independent individuals,or assume that in some sense,children’s poverty is entirely derived from household poverty.This approach overlooks complex factors such as family structure,family consumption structure,family income distribution,children’s independence,and their special needs.In the past,the traditional view of poverty measured child poverty directly through household poverty,and although household poverty often becomes an important cause of child poverty,this approach ignores children’s subjectivity.How closely are household poverty and child poverty linked,and do non-poor children from poor families also experience poverty to a certain extent?Previous studies only qualitatively described the relationship between household poverty and child poverty and lacked detailed quantitative research.Therefore,this article uses data from the China Family Panel Studies from 2010 to 2018 to study the multidimensional poverty of children in different age groups in China.This article selects a total of 11 indicators from 5 dimensions,including nutrition,health,education,living environment,and information.It uses the "A-F method" proposed by Sen and the multiple overlapping deprivation analysis method to establish a multidimensional poverty index system for children to measure the extent of child poverty in China.In addition,the logistic regression analysis method is used to determine the factors influencing multidimensional poverty among children in two age groups,0-5 years and 6-17 years.The research results show that from 2010 to 2018,the poverty incidence rate of children in each age group has generally decreased year by year,and some indicators,such as illness and medical insurance,have increased to some extent.Similarly,the deprivation rates of these two indicators among children in each age group are relatively high.Although the urban-rural gap in multidimensional child poverty is gradually narrowing,the gap between the two is still large,and children in rural areas are more likely to fall into poverty.Factors such as children’s place of residence,whether they have purchased commercial medical insurance,and parents’ educational level all have an impact on their multidimensional poverty.