Estimating uncertainty for child poverty indicators: The Case of Mediterranean Countries

Abstract

Over the last few years, there has been increased interest in compiling poverty indicators for children, as well as in providing uncertainty measures associated with point estimates. In this paper, we provide child point and bootstrapped relative standard error estimates for the At-risk-of-poverty Rate and Gini coefficient for Mediterranean countries. Using the 2018 EU-SILC survey, our results show that for these categories, poverty tends to be higher when compared to the national estimates for most of the analysed countries.