Poorer than Adults and Deprived in Almost All Counts: Welfare Status of Children in Nigeria

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-10334

Publication:
Poorer than Adults and Deprived in Almost All Counts: Welfare Status of Children in Nigeria

dc.contributor.author	Schimanski, Caroline
dc.contributor.author	Azad, M. Abul
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-09T21:05:19Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-09T21:05:19Z
dc.date.issued	2023-03
dc.description.abstract	Analyzing data from four waves of the Nigerian General Household Survey and the Nigerian Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, covering the period from 2010 through 2019, this study provides evidence that poverty levels of children exceed those of adults. Overall, rural children throughout the country and children in the North face higher poverty and chronic poverty rates than urban children and those living in the South without clear trends of a closing of those gaps. These findings hold for monetary poverty as well as, for severe health, education, food, shelter, water, information deprivation and improved sanitation deprivation across Nigeria’s six regions. One exception is severe sanitation deprivation, for which especially rural areas in the Southwest stand out with higher levels of severe sanitation deprivation than in rural areas in the north and any other region. Large inter-state heterogeneity of estimates within regions, ranging up to 50 percentage points, for all except severe food deprivation however highlight the importance of looking beyond regional poverty estimates and regional differences. Only state specific, but no systematic evidence has been found for a gender difference in severe educational deprivation and school enrollment rates. Existing gender gaps though seem negligible compared to the overall level of deprivation and urban-rural and north-south gaps. Moreover, the parents’ literacy and more so the educational level is highly correlated with the probability of being poor or deprived in any dimension, in particular in rural and northern areas. Interestingly, up to about half of the monetary non-poor children at the top of the consumption distribution still face at least one severe deprivation.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099642003012335809/IDU00fa913480b2b90434b0b10702c52d01168a0
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-10334
dc.identifier.uri	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39502
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Papers; 10334
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.subject	CHILD POVERTY
dc.subject	MONETARY POVERTY
dc.subject	MULTI-DIMENSIONAL POVERTY
dc.subject	DEPRIVATION
dc.subject	INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
dc.subject	CHRONIC POVERTY
dc.subject	DEPRIVATION GENDER GAP
dc.title	Poorer than Adults and Deprived in Almost All Counts	en
dc.title.subtitle	Welfare Status of Children in Nigeria	en
dc.type	Working Paper
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Poorer than Adults and Deprived in Almost All Counts: Welfare Status of Children in Nigeria
okr.date.disclosure	2023-03-01
okr.date.lastmodified	2023-03-01T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099642003012335809/IDU00fa913480b2b90434b0b10702c52d01168a0
okr.guid	099642003012335809
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-10334
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	34011247
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	34011247
okr.identifier.report	WPS10334
okr.import.id	16
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099642003012335809/pdf/IDU00fa913480b2b90434b0b10702c52d01168a0.pdf	en
okr.region.country	Nigeria
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Equity and Development
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Living Standards
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Migration and Development
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty and Policy
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Economic Policy
okr.unit	Development Data Group (DECDG)