relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … in the household in the two cross sections. Child poverty rates exceed those for the whole population. The number of … children in the household depends on the number of women in child-bearing age and their distribution across this age group …

poverty used in this paper. These enrich our understanding but do not directly deal with children growing up in absolute … poverty and non-participation in schooling. This issue can be meaningfully explored with household as the unit of analysis … number of children and the household size in very-poor, poor, non-poor low income and non-poor high income households from …