Measuring Child Poverty

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) Report Card series provokes debate on child Well-being in wealthy countries. It provides an important tool to address critical issues affecting child disadvantage in the industrialised world. Since 2000, the IRC has released nine issues of the series, each addressing different aspects of the living conditions of children and adolescents in economically advanced countries. All the Report Card are built around a ""league table"", ranking countries according to their performance on a key child indicator or group of indicators. The tenth issue of the Report Card series (RC10) investigates poverty and vulnerability among children in rich countries using a perspective that goes beyond the traditional monetary approach and includes measures of multidimensional poverty. The research uses the most up-to-date data for the most economically advanced countries.