Australian Children at Risk of Social Exclusion: A Spatial Index for Gauging Relative Disadvantage.

The article reports on the role of social exclusion to measure and monitor disadvantage among children and adults in Australia. It states that the concept of social exclusion is one attempt at developing a richer and more multidimensional view of disadvantage, including child disadvantage. The correlation analysis infers that the Child Social Exclusion indexes are different from other indexes because it offers additional information on social exclusion risk.