Alongside the indicators of income poverty and low work intensity, the severe material deprivation indicator forms part of the EU social exclusion target to lift at least 20 million people from poverty or social exclusion by 2020. In the absence of a dedicated child deprivation indicator, the official child deprivation rate in the EU is calculated as the share of children living in deprived households. Of course, certain domains, such as housing conditions, can be assumed to affect all household members uniformly and, as such, do not need to be measured at the level of the child.