The decomposition is carried out for different quantiles of the income distribution, so that the factors influencing child poverty can be compared across the income distribution. Recentered Influence Function (RIF)-regressions are used to decompose the role of differences in family characteristics and other labour market covariates and the differences in the way these latter are values in the labour market and protected by the net transfers. The approach is similar to an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, but the decomposition applies here on distributional measures instead of focusing on means (Fortin, Lemieux and Firpo, 201 l[i7])(see Box A2.3 for more technical details).