the three key dimensions are still access to sanitation quality housing and drinking water which even retained the same order of importance between and however as extreme poverty has declined these three dimensions have become even more prominent suggesting that greater strides have been made in education information and nutrition than in sanitation housing and drinking water these three dimensions contribute heavily to total child poverty too and their significance has increased as total poverty among children has decreased from in to in unlike in the case of extreme poverty education has increased in importance as a contributing factor to total poverty suggesting that little progress has actually been made in reducing education deprivation the fact that its relative contribution to extreme poverty has diminished indicates that more than proportional progress had been made in reducing the percentage of children with no access to schooling the fact that the same did not happen with total poverty means that progress in reducing the school dropout rate had been less significant than achievements in other areas its contribution to extreme poverty also increased in countries in the region