KEPE’s Index of General Child Wellbeing and Multidimensional Child Poverty

KEPE INDICES

Regarding KEPE’s Index of General Child Wellbeing and Multidimensional Child Poverty, the results show that, multidimensional child poverty in Greece during the 2024–2025 school year is 5.5%, while general child wellbeing is 94.5%. Specifically, the marginally highest percentages of vulnerable children (χ2[12, N=3,046] = 19.769, =0.072) are found in the Region of Central Greece (8.56%), followed by the Regions of Attica, Thessaly, and the Ionian Islands. Economic child poverty, and by extension household economic poverty, in Greece is estimated at 9.2%, while non-economic child poverty is 12.5%.

 

In addition, considering the above-mentioned Index, household inequalities related to nutrition during the 2024–2025 period appear more severe in single-mother families with dependent children (36.3%; χ2[2, N=2,923] = 51.119, < 0.001), in large families (41.1%; χ2[4, N=2,915] = 18.128, = 0.001), and in families with a migrant or refugee background with dependent children(33.6%; χ2[1, N=2,714] = 47.951, < 0.001). Household inequalities related to energy during the 2024–2025 period appear more severe in households in rural, insular, and mountainous areas with dependent children (15.0%; χ2[1, N=3,037] = 4.633, = 0.019) in  single-father families with dependent children (19.0%; χ2[2, N=2,922] = 29.793, < 0.001), in large families (24.6%; χ2[4, N=2,910] = 17.929, = 0.001), and in families with a migrant or refugee background with dependent children (19.3%; χ2[1, N=2,713] = 47.937, < 0.001).

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