Tracking progress on reducing child poverty in New Zealand
260,000
Crowded homes and child poverty
Children in poverty are more likely to live in crowded housing
180,000 go without need
kiwi kids
24%
17%
that’s
LIVE IN
that’s
poverty
the things
kiwi kids they
Material Hardship
Income Poverty
35 out of
kiwi hardest end* kids of poverty
ARE AT THE
children
of the
10%
of
living in poverty live this way for many years
Severe Poverty
Persistent Poverty
Data source – Child Poverty Monitor: 2014 Technical Report childpoverty.co.nz
*this is based on the most recent available data from 2012
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www.childpoverty.co.nz to read the full report
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2014
Income Poverty
Income poverty measures look at the amount of money families have to pay bills and purchase everyday essentials
60%
of nz’s
median income adjusted after tax for family size and type
less than
poverty children
LIVE IN
their families LIVE off
that’s
260,000 kiwi kids 1 in 4
Income is after housing costs as this is a significant and fixed portion of household spending. It shows what is left for other essentials.
63+37+F 1 in 3
1 in 3
53+47+F 1 in 6
ON AVERAGE:
pasifika children
poverty
arein
BENEFICIARY
HOUSEHOLDS
53%
47%
SOLE PARENT
FAMILIES
TWO PARENT
FAMILIES
*this is based on moving line poverty measures. Other data here are based on fixed line measures of poverty
www.childpoverty.co.nz
Data source – Child Poverty Monitor: 2014 Technical Report
maori children
poverty european children poverty arein
children in poverty by
FAMILY TYPE
37%
63%
ADULTS IN PAID
EMPLOYMENT
arein
children in poverty by household INCOME
CHILDREN ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY
TO BE IN POVERTY THAN THOSE AGED 65+
*
2014
Material Hardship
Material hardship means kids are living in households where they go without the things most New Zealanders consider essential
180,000
go without
kiwi kids regularly the things they need
www.childpoverty.co.nz
Data source – Child Poverty Monitor: 2014 Technical Report
17%
that’s
2014
Severe Poverty
1 in 10
Children in severe poverty are living in households with both low incomes and material deprivation
the things they need and their low family income
means they don’t have any opportunity to change this
*this is based on the most recent available data from 2012
www.childpoverty.co.nz
Data source – Child Poverty Monitor: 2014 Technical Report
are at the
10+90+F
10%
OF CHILDREN ARE
LIVING IN SEVERE
POVERTY
6% severe poverty
while
they are going without
kiwi hardest end kids of poverty
*
of NZ’s total
population
are living in
2014
Persistent
Persistent Poverty
Poverty
Children in persistent poverty are in families with low incomes over long periods of time
35
children in families whose average income
over 7 years is below the income poverty line www.childpoverty.co.nz Data source – Child Poverty Monitor: 2014 Technical Report
are likely to
children live this way for in poverty many years
of the
out of
Children in persistent poverty are in families with low incomes over long periods of time
Spending long periods of time in poverty from a young age makes it difficult for
