• child poverty
• Italy
• small area estimation
• Sustainable Development Goal 1
• EU-SILC
• HES

While there is widespread consensus that the effects of poverty, especially during childhood, have a negative impact to children well-being and have wider societal repercussions, including losses to the economy by decreased productivity, lower educational achievements and poor health there is less agreement on how childhood poverty should be identified and measured. This discussion is to be inserted into the wider one of Gross Domestic Product as a proxy for a country’s well-being.

This analysis is based on income and consumption levels and studies the territorial distribution of child poverty in Italy relying on The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions and on The Household Expenditure Survey.

This analysis was partially developed during the internship at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat).