The objective of the research is to find characteristics and scale of child poverty in GyeongGi-Do. The data for passing behavior of household in the National Capital region(2006) is analysed for the purpose. A child poverty rate is calculated by thre...
The objective of the research is to find characteristics and scale of child poverty in GyeongGi-Do. The data for passing behavior of household in the National Capital region(2006) is analysed for the purpose. A child poverty rate is calculated by three criteria: 50%, 60%, and 70% of a median block.
The analysis focuses on the impact of demographic and labor-marketed determinants on the child poverty. The study is composed of two parts: the first is to compare child poverty patterns among Seoul, Incheon, and GyeongGi-Do; the second be them among five districts in GyeongGi-Do.
The research results in the follows. Firstly, The poverty rate in GyeonGi-Do is the lowest in the National Capital regions. The northeast inland district has highest child poverty rate among five distircts in GyeonGi-Do. A neighboring area to Seoul and a south littoral districts are lowest child poverty rate.
Secondly, the research finds that the determinants of the child poverty in GyeongGi-Do are the number of child, whether a single parent is or not, whether the header of a household is female or not (especially 30-40 age groups). These factors also have the same effects in other regions such as Seoul and Incheon. GyeonGi-Do, especially, shows highest percentage of the type of single parent to household patterns in three regions. When considering the five districts in GyeongGi-Do, the northeast inland district records a highest percentage.
Thirdly, among labor-marketed factors, when a head of household takes the job of housewife or engaging in agriculture/fishery, a child of those households tends to be poorer than one of any other household.
Finally, concerning income family type, GyeonGi-Do shows the following results: the proportion of a dual income family is highest and that of an unemployed family is lowest. Among five districts in GyeonGi-Do the northeast inland district shows the highest proportion of the unemployed family.
Shortly, GyeonGi-Do has higher proportion of single parent and of engaging in agriculture/fishery of head of household than other two regions. The northeast inland district in GyeonGi-Do gets the higher child poverty rate than other four ones. Therefore a medium-and long term plan, which is proper to GyeonGi-Do, to overcome the child poverty should be established.