for this reason and in order to incorporate income measures at the same time the current study was based on household surveys which are available for all countries in the region and include satisfactory data for implementing both methodologies to make these estimates the indicators were adapted to the data available in household surveys not only did this meet the data availability criterion it also recognized the necessary sociocultural relevance of the exercise of rights especially to determine the thresholds for identifying when a child or adolescent was experiencing extreme child poverty or total child poverty the deprivation thresholds established in the global measurement based on the bristol indicators had been confined to the severest situations of child deprivation for latin america it was decided to follow the above criterion but to also define thresholds to identify situations of moderate deprivation as they too reflect needs that when unmet affect childrens wellbeing and development