World Child Well-Being Index: A Multidimensional Perspective
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چکیده
Abstract This work aims to understand the situation of children within a particular territory and assess different dimensions this scenario. To end we develop multidimensional indicator synthesize most relevant indicators around world at country level. Our results not only identify aspects exerting greatest impact on infant well-being, but also provide full international comparison. The ranking obtained allows us compare among countries, thus highlighting differences in transformation wealth into well-being. Moreover, incorporating gender analysis provides new perspective.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Child Indicators Research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1874-897X', '1874-8988']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-021-09848-7