The prevalence of multiple deprivation for children in the UK: Analysis of the Millennium Cohort and Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England (Report for HMT, version 1.4)
(October 30, 2006) Leon Feinstein and Ricardo Sabates
WBL Discussion Paper 07-03
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This report describes findings from a project undertaken for HM Treasury in Autumn 2006 addressing the question: how many children in the UK live in families with multiple risk factors? Our analysis draws on two national UK datasets to set out the prevalence of different types of problems across families and the extent of co-occurrence of risk, commonly termed multiple deprivation. We calculate the proportion of families/households living with two or more risk factors, three or more, and so on.
We assess the prevalence of risk in a wide range of domains of family life. Some of these domains are characterised by a single indicator, for example teenage parenthood. Others are multidimensional, as is the case, for example, of mental health or domestic violence, where risk in the domain can be assessed by a number of indicators.
