Journal Article

A Review Essay on the Measurement of Child Well-Being

Mendes, Américo, Fernandes, Liliana, Teixeira, Aurora A. C.

2012

Overview

Research on indicators related to the state of child well-being is a growing field that has experienced several changes over time. The growing supply of data on children, as well as the need to facilitate conclusions and to track trends, has led researchers to develop a number of child well-being indexes. This paper critically reviews the most recent and relevant child well-being indexes, i.e., the Index of Child and Youth Well-Being in the United States, the Child Well-being Index for the European Union, the Microdata Child Well-being Index, and the Deprivation Index. The study focuses primarily on the contributions and innovations the indexes have brought to the field, making a critical assessment of the methods used in the construction of the indexes and identifying their main limitations.

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Child Advocacy / Child Welfare / Child. Socialization / Children / Children & youth / Childrens Rights / Data analysis / Deprivation / Deprivation Index / European Union / Evaluation Methods / Evaluation Utilization / Families & family life / Family Income / Foreign Countries / History, theory and methodology / Human Geography / Indexation / Indexes / Indexes (Measures) / Innovation / Innovations / Measurement / Measurement Problems / Methodology / Microeconomics / Population / Poverty / Public Health / Quality of life / Quality of Life Research / Research methods / Research trends / Researchers / Resistance (Psychology) / Social Indicators / Social interaction / Social Psychology / Social Sciences / Socioeconomic factors / Sociology / Sociology of the family. Age groups / Sociometric Techniques / Studies / Test Construction / Trends / United States / United States of America / Well Being / Youth