Table 2.

Demographic, Labor Market, and Government Impacts on Changes in Child Poverty Rates: Countries Experiencing a Decrease of 1 Percentage Point or Greater in Child Poverty During the 1990s

	United Kingdom (1991, 1999)	United States (1991, 2000)	Norway (1991, 2000)	Canada (1991, 2000)
1. Child Poverty Rate Based on Fixed Poverty Line
T based on T – 10 poverty line	7.8	17.0	2.0	14.0
T – 10	18.5	24.3	5.2	15.3
Change	−10.8	−7.3	−3.2	−1.3
2. Contribution to Change in Child Poverty Rate
Demographic factors	0.1	−1.4	−0.6	−1.2
Average age of parents	−0.5	−0.7	−0.1	−1.0
Education of parents	––a	−1.0	−0.3	−0.4
Number of children	0.1	0.1	0.0	−0.3
Single parent	0.5	0.2	−0.2	0.5
Labor market factors	−0.8	−4.1	−0.6	−4.6
Proportion with fathers working	−0.3	−0.8	0.2	−0.5
Proportion with mothers working	−0.4	−0.7	−0.3	−0.5
Annual earnings of father	0.7	−0.4	−0.1	−1.8
Annual earnings of mother	−0.8	−2.2	−0.4	−1.8
Government transfers	−11.3	0.4	−3.8	2.9
Residual	1.2	−2.2	1.8	1.6

Source: Derivations by the authors using LIS data and methods described in the text.

^aInformation not available.