The experiences of children and their families living in poverty - Qualitative methods to assess child poverty
Event Date: 20th July 2023, Time: 8:00 AM EDT
See the recordings here and the presentations here.
Innovative methods for assessing poverty are ever-increasing. While quantitative methods like household survey analyses provide crucial information on poverty and are the most common tool to measure poverty, qualitative methods like life history interviews and others can help build and share an understanding of the daily lives of children living in poverty, which numbers alone can fail to do.
This webinar was hosted by the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty and showcased various qualitative methods to measure child poverty and explore how they can complement quantitative measures for impactful policy advocacy.
Speakers:
Gwyther Rees, Social & Economic Policy Manager, UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti
Cath Porter, Director, Young Lives
Julia Karpati, Senior Researcher, Social Policy Research Institute (SPRI Global)
Fernanda Paredes, Social Policy Officer UNICEF Argentina
Yasmine Ibrahim, Social Policy Specialist, UNICEF Lebanon
Moderators:
Sola Engilbertsdottir, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
David Lambert Tumwesigye, Co-chair, Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
Resources:
Young Lives. 2018. Early Childhood Development: informing policy and making it a priority
UNICEF Lebanon. 2022. Multidimensional Child Poverty: A Qualitative Overview of Lebanon
UNICEF Argentina 2023. La situación de la pobreza en barrios populares - Estudio cualitativon (see also this short video with English subtitles)