however reviewing each in isolation hides the proportion of households lacking access to both improved sanitation and clean fuel as well as obscures the number of households that are deprived in additional areas in the lao peoples democratic republic for example per cent of all households lack access to two opportunities almost half lack access to three or four opportunities while one quarter are deprived in five or six overall in half of the countries at least five per cent of households are severely deprived lacking access to five or six opportunities levels of multiple deprivation are lower among households in north and central asian countries