| AUTHOR | UNICEF |
| ORGANIZATION | UNICEF |
| TYPE | Working Paper |
| DATE | 2008 |
| TOPIC | Child poverty and disparities |
| LANGUAGE | English |
Data on the impact of social change on children is crucial for policy making but often incomplete and available too late to make a difference. Children experience social change in different ways from adults and in ways that are often missed in traditional data systems. Yet children and young people are one of the groups for whom the impact of social transformations has the greatest and most long-lasting implications.