This suggests that at a given level of social spending and targeting, a greater proportion of households living in rural areas tends to reduce child poverty risks. In terms of the economic environment, the employment rate for mothers - proxied here by the proportion of couples with two earners and the employment rate for singleparent households - shares a negative association the child poverty rate (Columns 4 to 8), implying child poverty rates are lower when maternal employment is higher. The dependent and independent variables are expressed in log.