Fairness for children : Équité entre les enfants : tableau de classement des inégalités de bien-être entre les enfants des pays riches

Interpreting the data: League Table 3 – Health Data from the 2013/2014 wave of the Health frequent health complaints (represented by the Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study are mean of values below the median) to the frequency reported in League Table 3. of complaints recorded by the ‘average’ child (represented by the median itself), with the gap This table ranks countries on the basis [...] Children bottom of the distribution grow » In the second group of countries, living in jobless households are faster than in the middle, the result the relative gap shrank because overrepresented in the bottom is a doubly positive scenario of the median income declined, income decile in all European overall improvements coupled with while the 10th percentile either countries. [...] In Bulgaria, in the aftermath of the economic income gaps and material deprivation Hungary and Romania, over 90 per crisis, the arguments in favour of in households with children: cent of children in the bottom prioritizing policies that prevent the countries with higher bottom-end income decile live in materially incomes of the poorest households income inequality tend also to have deprived house [...] By the vast majority of countries The vast majority of countries, 25 contrast, inequality widened in the examined here have seen inequality out of 34, had reduced bottom-end other three countries because, in in health-related outcomes widen in inequality in unhealthy eating by at spite of an overall reduction in the some of the four areas considered least 2 percentage points over the prevalence of [...] Ten out of the 12 countries picture exists in terms of country and Iceland saw considerable that showed progress in reducing rankings in 2014, with most reductions in the relative gap of over bottom-end inequality in the countries placing in the top half for 17 percentage points.