however it is possible that within a family categorized as experiencing deprivation children will not be victims if for example parents have their childrens needs met as a priority unlike european surveys the canadian survey also does not provide information on the availability of resources to meet childrens specific educational recreational or sportrelated needs table shows the share of children under in canada deprived of a range of material goods resources and opportunities grouped according to their income poverty status nonincomepoor children are less likely than incomepoor children to be deprived on all of the measures in table