as they have markedly different levels of child poverty and child deprivation based on the standard eu material deprivation indicator using these three countries as examples helps demonstrate the applicability of eumoda across the enlarged eu poverty among children is usually measured as the share of children living in poor households the proportion of children under living in deprived households using the enforced lack of out of standard items ranged from in finland and in the uk to in romania eurostat database last update many efforts have been made to measure child poverty using material deprivation indicators as a more direct way of measuring childrens material wellbeing the severe deprivation rate is based on the same set of items but the cutoff is drawn at four items rather than three proposed by guio both material deprivation measures had been adopted by the eu social protection committee