Family affluence and inequality in adolescent health and life satisfaction : Evidence from the HBSC study 2002-2004

The prime objectives of the Office of Research are to improve international understanding of issues relating to children’s rights and to help facilitate full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in developing, middle-income and industrialized countries. [...] Pagina 6 Family Affluence and Inequality in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the HBSC study 2002-2014 Innocenti Working Paper 2016-10 1. INTRODUCTION The health and well-being of European and North American adolescents has improved in many respects over the last decade. [...] The current study examines the extent to which the socio-economic backgrounds of adolescents, relative to their peers in the same country, correspond to being in the ‘bottom end’ of health and well-being, defined as scoring below the mean of the lower half of the distribution given the country and survey year (see Currie et al. [...] However, the present study focuses on the individual determinants of scoring in the bottom group (separately by indicator, country and year) rather than on the country-level dispersion of health scores in the lower half of the distribution (see Chzhen et al. [...] Pagina 11 Family Affluence and Inequality in Adolescent Health and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the HBSC study 2002-2014 Innocenti Working Paper 2016-10 3. RESULTS Table 1 (page 12) shows the proportion of adolescents falling in the bottom group for the health behaviour indicators and life satisfaction across 31 countries in 2013-2014.