however the available information is too scant to allow measurements of this type for a sufficient number of countries in the region this risk decreases however when using an aggregation scheme in which the presence of one deprivation is not sufficient for identifying a person as poor furthermore some of the indicators included here serve as a proxy albeit an imperfect one for health and employment dimensions which were not measured in the two indices analysed in the foregoing sections and which are relevant aspects of wellbeing in the first case the presence of at least one young person in the household who was neither in education or paid employment was taken as a threshold of deprivation because with the alternative options half or all the more young people in the household the less feasible it would be to classify a household as deprived