First Order Dominance Analysis: Child Wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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• 作者：Malokele Nanivazo (1)
  
  1. United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) ; Katajanokanlaituri 6 B ; 00160 ; Helsinki ; Finland
  
• 关键词：Welfare ; First order dominance ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; Multidimensional poverty
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：May 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：122
• 期：1
• 页码：235-255
• 全文大小：257 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Sociology
  Quality of Life Research
  Microeconomics
  Public Health
  Human Geography
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921

文摘

This paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This methodology allows the ordinal ranking of the 11 provinces of the DRC in terms of their wellbeing based upon the probability of their domination. This empirical application obviates the need to adopt a weighting scheme for the deprivation indicators or to rely on the signs of other cross-derivatives for comparison. We execute a bootstrap linear programming algorithm on seven deprivation indicators for three age groups of children derived from the DRC 2007 Standard Demographic and Health Survey. The results reveal widespread disparities in child wellbeing in the DRC.