Child material deprivation in the EUThe role of family structure
Utilising the EU-SILC modules 2009, 2014, and 2021, this note analyses child-specific material deprivation in the EU Member States. Besides the statistics on the most frequently lacked items, the child-specific material deprivation intensity (i.e., the number of lacked items) and the child-specific material deprivation rate over three periods, regression models are used to examine factors of child-specific material deprivation in 2021. Special attention is devoted to blended families, defined here as households of a couple where at least one ad