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Persistent child poverty in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Marina, LLOYD Katrina, MCKEE Patricia
- Publisher:
- Save the Children
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Traditionally, researchers have given a more ‘static’ snapshot of poverty by looking at it at a particular place and time. However, the introduction of the Northern Ireland Household Panel (NIHPS) survey in 2001 has allowed analysts to study the duration of child poverty. In the NI Household Panel Survey, the same people are followed up each year. This enables researchers to study how their circumstances change over the four year period for which data is available (2001-2004). Using this information, we are able to study whether child poverty is short-term or persistent - that is, being poor for at least three of the four years. 21% of children were living in persistent poverty, compared to 9% in Great Britain. Those most affected by persistent poverty were children living in families dependent mainly on benefits as their main source of income, children living with a lone parent and children living in families with a disabled or elderly adult or a disabled child. Furthermore, the analysis showed that parents of children living in poverty had poorer mental health and that mental health and well-being was worst for mothers of children living in persistent poverty.