this fact illustrates how deprivation is much higher in rural areas as per cent of children who are not poor but deprived live in rural areas using the section of the questionnaire dedicated to the subjective estimation of the living standard we can estimate the proportion of children who live in a household whose head considers the household to be poor or very poor about per cent of children live in households that consider themselves poor or very poor this number is consistently lower than the number of children who are poor andor deprived about per cent of children are poor and deprived but their household head does not consider the household to be poor