hence children in low work intensity households holding other characteristics constant are more likely to fall into the poorest decile than children living in households with work intensity that higher or is equal to differences in the probability of being in the bottom income decile by household work intensity is highest in slovenia closely followed by slovak republic and estonia the proportion of children living in deprived households differs across european countries with the lowest being in switzerland and highest reaching approximately in bulgaria in all the european countries included in the analyses at least in children in the poorest decile lives in a deprived household