چکیده: (9542 مشاهده)
Intuition: Poverty results in many different problems which adversely affect
one's quality of life. Children build future of every society. The better
development of the children, the better society in the future will be. Children in
poverty are more vulnerable than the adults, because they are more dependent on
the supports of the parents and their environments. The main aim of this study is
to identify status of the children in poverty, which can provide a guideline for the
policy makers and enabled them to tackle child poverty and to optimally design
targeting schemes.
Methodology: This study provides detailed picture of child poverty in 22
different districts of city of Tehran in 2008. To this end, Foster, Greer,
Thorbecke (1984) poverty index is used. Child poverty is identified with their
head of household's characteristics, including their education level, gender, age,
and size of the household.
Results and Findings: Some of the most important results of this study are as
follows: The highest rate of child poverty locates in district 19 of Tehran and the
lowest rate in district 3. Children at the households whose heads are deprived of
higher education qualification with informal job, are more likely to be poor. The
highest rate of child poverty occurs at the families whose heads are female,
without higher education qualification and active in informal labor market. The
rate of child poverty at the households whose heads have not higher education
qualification is twice as those with the qualification.
نوع مطالعه:
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رفاه اجتماعی دریافت: 1390/7/17 | انتشار: 1388/12/24