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Children and Adolescents
Children and adolescents: magnitude of poverty and extreme poverty in Brazil
First part of the series focused on poverty of children and adolescents. It presents the evolution of situations of poverty and extreme monetary poverty among children and adolescents from 0 to 17 years of age in Brazil, addressing the evolution of the incidence, distribution, and poverty gap.
Based on the microdata from Continuous PNAD, the panel presents an analysis of the portrait and historical series, for the years 2012 to 2021, of the magnitude of poverty and extreme monetary poverty of children and adolescents (aged 0 to 17) in Brazil. In addition, it is possible to analyze these indicators for clippings for gender, age, race or skin color, area of residence, region of the country, and Unit of the Federation.
The analysis for the range of 0-to-17-year-olds allows us to reflect on issues associated with intragenerational social mobility, which occurs during the individual’s life, and covers young people up to the maximum age defined by law as mandatory to stay in basic education (which covers early childhood education, Elementary and Junior High School and High School).
This is the first panel of the series that sheds light on the different realities of children and adolescents in Brazil. In this series, important results are presented that allow us to think of alternatives to mitigate the inequality of opportunities between children and adolescents from different income groups, whose greater objective is to break out the poverty trap and remove barriers to social mobility in Brazil.
Children and adolescents: monetary poverty and conditions for skills development in Brazil
The second part of the series focused on the conditions of children and adolescents in Brazil presents the characteristics of households and their residents among poor children and adolescents and among those who live in households with the 20% highest per capita income in the country.
Following the studies on poverty in childhood and adolescence with data from the National Continuous Household Sample Survey (Continuous PNAD) 2012 to 2021, we present the theme monetary poverty and conditions for the development of skills of children and adolescents in Brazil. In the first study of the series, we talked about the evolution of the incidence, distribution, and poverty gap. In this one, we address the possible barriers to social mobility.
In the panel, we make comparisons of the characteristics of households and their residents among poor children and adolescents (identified from the regionalized poverty line) and among those who live in households with the 20% highest per capita income in the country. The topics addressed are household composition, housing conditions, access to durable goods and information and communication technology (ICT), education of cohabitants and partial education results of Brazilians between 0 and 17 years of age.
We seek with these indicators to shed light on the realities of children and young people from different socioeconomic contexts and foster the debate on how to build a country with greater upward social mobility, thus offering better possibilities for all to develop and break the cycles of poverty that exist today.
Characterization of per capita household income of children and adolescents in Brazil
Third part of the series focused on the conditions of children and adolescents in Brazil presents the characteristics of the composition of per capita household income of those in poor households and of those in the 20% highest per capita income bracket.
Based on the microdata of the Continuous PNAD, the panel presents the characteristics of the composition of per capita household income of children and adolescents (aged 0 to 17) in Brazil. Indicators comparing these characteristics among children and adolescents in poor households and those in the 20% highest per capita household income bracket in the country are presented. In addition, it is possible to explore age group and area of residence of children and adolescents, as well as sex and skin color or race of the person responsible for the household, in addition to different years between 2012 and 2021. The results by region of the country and Unit of the Federation are also presented.
This panel closes the series that brings different aspects that affect the development of children and adolescents in Brazil. Indicators are presented on topics such as the ratio of financial dependence, occupation, and composition of household income, among others, stimulating a reflection of the differences between children and young people of different socioeconomic levels and the search for more egalitarian opportunities among them, promoting greater social mobility in the country.