| dc.description.abstract | Earlier research has shown that poverty is associated and clustered with other
welfare problems. However, less is known about the long-term consequences of being poor. In this
explorative study, Swedish longitudinal data, collected 1998 and
2006 has been used to examine whether there are any long-term effects on several indicators of
living conditions. With logistic regression models, we predicted 14 indicators of bad living
conditions in 2006. We measured poverty using income (<
60% below median income) and deprivation (Weighted Deprivation Index) in
1998. Estimates were also adjusted for demographical control variables and poverty in
2006. Findings from this study indicated that among those categorized as poor 1998 the risk of
being deprivation poor or income poor in 2006 was significantly higher (Adj. OR 4.63, 3.07
respectively). Furthermore, we found that
especially deprivation poverty had long-term consequences on materialistic and economical living
conditions, while less effect on social, health, political and victimization. Income poverty was
shown to be having little or no effect on either of the examined living conditions in this study.
Therefore we argue that poverty has long-term effects in two ways, first an increased risk of
future poverty and secondly an increased risk of bad materialistic and economic living condition in
2006. However, since research is limited, further research is needed to validate these results. | sv |
