Children’s subjective experiences of poverty In recent years, surveys of adults about poverty have started to ask about subjective perceptions of poverty, such as how well they feel they are coping financially or whether they would define themselves as poor. In comparison, there are very few international comparative studies on children’s subjective experiences of poverty. This is part of a much broader tendency not to engage children or enable them to contribute their views to debates on poverty. We return to this issue in the concluding section of the report. One key exception is the Children’s Worlds study (2016–2019),18 which included a question about whether children worried about how much money their family had. The proportion of children frequently worrying about family money (Figure 6) ranged from around 8 per cent in Norway to 38 per cent in Chile. A notable feature of this chart is that, in many countries, children around the age of 8 years were substantially more worried than children around the ages of 10 and 12 years. Figure 6. Proportion of children often/always worrying about family money, by age group Sources: See Technical Appendix Norway Finland Republic of Korea France (cities) Hungary Switzerland Croatia Germany UK (Wales) Romania Belgium (Flemish) UK (England) Malta Israel Poland Greece (Epirus) Estonia Spain (Catalonia) Age group Italy (Liguria) Chile (cities) 0 20 40 60 80 100 12 years old 10 years old 8 years old Always/often worrying about family money (%) 18 Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth Innocenti Report Card 18