at the same time in countries where of preschool age children were excluded denmark hungary italy latvia malta and slovakia there were no significant differences by income however missing values for austria and bulgaria are relatively low per cent while data for sweden per cent need to be interpreted with extreme caution there are no significant differences by income for the oldest age group except in slovakia where poor children were more likely to be excluded this helps construct the profiles of multiply deprived andor poor children identifying the most vulnerable subgroups