this implies that incomebased measures need to be complemented by nonmonetary measures to present a solid empirical picture of spatial differences in poverty and deprivation nonmonetary measures are based on either the respondent s selfassessment of their owrn material conditions or on measures of ownership of consumer goods and living standards boarini and mira d ercole but could also extend to measures of other types of achievements such as their health skills and political voice this indicator is closer to an absolute measure of poverty as it is based on a set of commodities each with the same weight that are equal across all countries this indicator is also based on counting the same number of deprivations in all eu countries implying that it is based on a common euwide norm as compared to the country specific thresholds used when measuring the incomepoverty headcount as the list of deprivation items is generally countryspecific and influenced by cultural factors no measure of material deprivation is regularly compiled for oecd countries