摘要：This study uses Alkire and Foster’s (2007) methodology to measure Multidimensional Child Poverty in different districts of Punjab province of Pakistan using Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS-4) data for 2007-08. This methodology based on the traditional Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) measures of poverty uses adjusted head count ratio by breadth of deprivation of multidimensional poverty to go together with other measures of child poverty. This measure satisfies the property of decomposability, and is also applicable to ordinal and cardinal variables in micro data sets. The analysis of child poverty at divisional level show that Rawalpindi division is the most deprived 13.78% while Gujranwala division is the least deprived 1.4% division in Drinking water dimension. Muzaffarghar, Rajanpur and Bahawalnagar are the most deprived districts based on the results of Headcount Ratio, Adjusted Headcount Ratio (M0) and Shared Average Deprivation (A), respectively. Khushab, Rajanpur, Lodhran, Mianwali and Okara are the most child deprived districts in terms of drinking water, Sanitation Vitamin-A, Health access and Enrolment respectively. Dera Ghazi Khan (D.G. Khan) is the most child deprived districts in terms of overcrowding and Immunization. Present study also concludes that the child deprivation in terms of overcrowding dimension contributes mostly in overall multidimensional child poverty i.e. 58.33% followed by enrollment dimension (47.05%).
