The rights-based approach is also used for the study Comparing Child Well-being in OECD Countries, carried out in the context of the UNICEF Innocenti Report Cards 7 and 10 on Child Well-being in Rich Countries (Bradshaw et al., Many studies have used relative deprivation by defining deprivation based on the overall distribution of the indicators selected (e.g. Barnes and Wright 2012, Bradshaw et al 2006, 2007, Notten and Roelen 2011, Zelinsky 2010). Similarly, Barnes and Wright (2012) define child poverty as the lack of items essential for children to have an acceptable standard of living.