as noted earlier households may be classified as not experiencing deprivation of any sort or as exhibiting deprivation in terms of at least one of different indicators this translates into a reduction in relative terms from to of the urban population this means that in the space of just five years the percentage of the population that is not living in poverty jumped from to thanks to the country s recent progress in socioeconomic terms the percentage of households experiencing deprivation as measured by six or more indicators was so small as to be statistically insignificant and the results for deprivation as measured by or more indicators were nil