Investing in children - Employment and social inclusion indicators
The agreed list of indicators is based on three key pillars:
- Access to adequate resources
- Access to affordable quality services
- Children's right to participate
Overall objective of combating child poverty and social exclusion and promoting child well-being
Primary indicators
- At risk of poverty or social exclusion for children
- At-risk-of poverty rate for children
- Severe material and social deprivation rate
- Share of children living in very low work intensity households
Secondary indicators
- Dispersion of child poverty around the poverty risk threshold: at-risk-of poverty rate calculated with 50% and 70% thresholds
- Persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate for children
Context indicators
Access to adequate resources
Primary indicators
- In-work poverty rate of people living in households with dependent children
- At-risk-of poverty rate for children by work intensity of the household
- At-risk-of poverty rate for children in households at work
- Relative median poverty gap for children
- Child care
- Impact of social transfers (other than pensions) in reducing child poverty
- Housing cost overburden
Access to quality services
Primary indicators
- Participation in early childhood education
- Young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) rate
- Self-reported unmet need for medical examination (16-24)
- Infant mortality
- Housing deprivation
- Overcrowding
- Early leavers from education and training