The same is true for childcare services and long-term elderly care: the overall effects are small, but provide important support for the groups concerned. Overall income poverty, for instance, hardly drops when childcare services are accounted for, but poverty among young children falls by one quarter and poverty among children enrolled in childcare is more than halved. However, the impact was stronger in countries where the share of services in household income increased significantly (by more than four percentage points), while it weakened in those countries where this share decreased.