Child well-being in the Pacific Rim

Type Journal Article - Child Indicators Research
Title Child well-being in the Pacific Rim
Author(s)
Volume 3
Issue 3
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2010
Page numbers 367-383
URL http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/11011/1/Child_well-being_in_the_Pacific_Rim_-_deposited_7_july_2010.p​df
Abstract
This study extends previous efforts to compare the well-being of children using multidimensional indicators derived from sample survey and administrative series to thirteen countries in the Pacific Rim. The framework for the analysis of child well-being is to organise 46 indicators into 21 components and organise the components into 6 domains: material situation, health, education, subjective well-being, living environment, as well as risk and safety. Overall, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan have the highest child well-being and Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines the lowest. However, there are substantial variations between the domains. Japan and Korea perform best on the material well-being of children and also do well on health and education but they have the lowest subjective well-being among their children by some margin. There is a relationship between child well-being and GDP per capita but children in China have higher well-being than you would expect given their GDP and children in Australia have lower well-being. The analysis is constrained by missing data particularly that the Health Behaviour of School-Aged Children Survey is not undertaken in any of these countries.

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