Poverty

Written By Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
 
 
 

No matter where they are, children who grow up impoverished suffer from poor living standards, develop fewer skills for the workforce, and earn lower wages as adults. Only a limited number of Governments have set the elimination of child poverty as a national priority.

Poverty Projects

 
Projects Database
Mapping gender related barriers for immunisation using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Gender Barriers to Vaccinations
Mapping gender related barriers for immunisation using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Gender Barriers to Vaccinations

Immunisation is widely perceived as gender-neutral, yet in many countries, there are distinct gender barriers at both household and community levels. This project aims to strengthen the availability of timely and granular data to identify gender-related barriers to immunisation better and inform targeted pro-equity strategies.

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Gender Barriers to Vaccinations
What data does Scotland collect and analyse that directly and indirectly impacts the lives of children and their families, and how can we best map it?
The Promise
What data does Scotland collect and analyse that directly and indirectly impacts the lives of children and their families, and how can we best map it?
The Promise

Scotland must #KeepThePromise it made to children and families - a cohesive picture of all the data on processes and systems that directly and indirectly impact children and families will help Scotland understand how to do that.

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The Promise
Understanding Poverty and Attainment Across the Northern Alliance Region of Scotland
Northern Alliance
Understanding Poverty and Attainment Across the Northern Alliance Region of Scotland
Northern Alliance

The places where our children and young people grow up in are extremely diverse and can greatly influence the outcomes of children and families across Scotland.

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Northern Alliance
Child Poverty Access to Services
Access to Services
Child Poverty Access to Services
Access to Services

This project will focus on mapping children’s physical accessibility to key services, such as health clinics and schools, in selected countries. We want to know whether the distance and time it takes to travel to a key service could help explain a child’s lack of access to it.

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Access to Services
 

Poverty Outputs

 
Outputs
Case Study: How We Facilitated a Collaborative Solution for UNICEF to Better Understand Child Poverty
Case Study: How We Facilitated a Collaborative Solution for UNICEF to Better Understand Child Poverty

This case study explains how the Data for Children Collaborative Facilitated a Collaborative Solution for UNICEF to Support them in Exploring Ways to Better Understand Access to Child Services.

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Case Study: How We Built the Right Team to Map Data for The Promise Scotland
Case Study: How We Built the Right Team to Map Data for The Promise Scotland

This case study shows how the Data for Children Collaborative helped The Promise Scotland build the right team to map diverse care system data.

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Case Study: How we Collaborated with Northern Alliance to Better Understand Poverty Attainment by  Unlocking Data
Case Study: How we Collaborated with Northern Alliance to Better Understand Poverty Attainment by  Unlocking Data

This case study explains how the Data for Children Collaborative helped the Northern Alliance uncover a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which educational attainment can be negatively affected by poverty, frame the conversation and layout logical project steps. 

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Presentation: A 100m Resolution Travel Time Map
Knowledge Exchange
Presentation: A 100m Resolution Travel Time Map
Knowledge Exchange

In this presentation, Dr Watmough, the project’s principal investigator, details how the team generated novel, more sustainable maps with a five-fold increased resolution for the entire continent of Africa and its island states, including 54 Countries

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Knowledge Exchange
Report: An investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland
Knowledge Exchange
Report: An investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland
Knowledge Exchange

A report conducting an investigation into how to collect and map data on 'what matters' to Children and Families in Scotland.

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Knowledge Exchange
Report: Is physical access to basic services a determinant of multidimensional childhood poverty?
Actionable Insights
Report: Is physical access to basic services a determinant of multidimensional childhood poverty?
Actionable Insights

This report is an output from our Poverty team, and it describes the work conducted for the Child Poverty and Access to Services (CPAS) project. The project's ultimate aim was to determine if geographic access to health centres correlated with multidimensional child poverty.

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Actionable Insights
Paper: Using open-source data to construct 20 metre resolution maps of children’s travel time to the nearest health facility
Knowledge Exchange
Paper: Using open-source data to construct 20 metre resolution maps of children’s travel time to the nearest health facility
Knowledge Exchange

A paper presenting the data and methods used to create more realistic estimates of travel times to health facilities in Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

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Knowledge Exchange
Report: Democratising Action for Attainment
Actionable Insights
Report: Democratising Action for Attainment
Actionable Insights

This report by CivicDataLab captures the work undertaken with stakeholders to identify the shared knowledge gap across local authorities, identify the most appropriate indicators and map the suitable data sources that can be used at the school catchment aggregation.

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Actionable Insights
Report: A Scoping Study on Data and Information that Describes Poverty and Educational Attainment
Actionable Insights
Report: A Scoping Study on Data and Information that Describes Poverty and Educational Attainment
Actionable Insights

As part of our Northern Alliance project, this report by the Fraser of Allander Institute looks across a wide range of data, some of which are rural specific, to scope out alternative evidence that could be used by schools and local authorities to identify issues that may be impacting attainment.

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Actionable Insights
Paper: Statistical Analysis of the Educational Mobility of Primary Schools Across Scotland
Knowledge Exchange
Paper: Statistical Analysis of the Educational Mobility of Primary Schools Across Scotland
Knowledge Exchange

As part of our project: Understanding Poverty and Attainment Across the Northern Alliance Region, The University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute completed a statistical analysis paper of the educational mobility of primary schools across Scotland.

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Knowledge Exchange
Travel Time Maps: Child Poverty Access to Services
Knowledge Exchange
Travel Time Maps: Child Poverty Access to Services
Knowledge Exchange

A collection of travel time maps to various health services produced as part of our Child Poverty Access to Services project.

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Knowledge Exchange
 
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