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At least one severe
deprivation
At least two severe
deprivations
No deprivations (not even
less severe)
Other 17.07 5.51 27.0
Family vulnerability
(not mutually exclusive
categories)
Orphan child in household
No 25.22 5.11 30.59
Yes 23.54 2.76 35.29
Elder (70+) person in
household
No 23.18 4.23 31.68
Yes 32.76 7.59 27.88
Geographic dimension
Region
Torba 51.60 8.64 12.1
Sanma 31.94 4.59 17.5
Penama 40.87 9.04 13.18
Malampa 9.25 0.39 12.91
Shefa 9.12 0.76 42.55
Tafea 50.31 15.38 21.77
Luganville 11.01 1.07 64.91
Port Vila 10.92 0.59 71
Residence
Urban 10.95 0.72 69.35
Rural 28.93 6.05 21.06
Source: MICS 2007. Figures in grey-shaded cells are based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases; Figures in grey italics are
based on 25-50 unweighted cases.
There are a number of apparent risk factors.
Children up to two years of age are most likely
to suffer a severe deprivation, particularly boys
(33 per cent) but also girls (30 per cent); but with
these exceptions, the gaps between other age
groups by gender are not as large. Those least
likely to suffer severe deprivation are girls 15-17
years (22.19 per cent) and boys 5-9 years (22.4
per cent), but most age and gender groups have
an incidence of severe deprivation of around 23-
25 per cent, or nearly a quarter of all children.
The strongest apparent correlation is with
wealth quintile, as illustrated in Figure 2.11. The
MICS collected information on the ownership of
household goods and amenities, and weights
were assigned to each household asset, to obtain
wealth scores for each household. The assets
or goods included were: electricity supply, radio,
TV, mobile phone, landline phone, refrigerator,
watch, bicycle, motorcycle, cart, car, motorized
boat and canoe, source of drinking water and
type of sanitary facility. The following household
characteristics were also included: number of
persons per sleeping room, type of floor, type of
roof, type of wall and type of cooking fuel. Each
household was then weighted by the number
of household members, and the household
population was divided into five groups of equal
size, from the poorest quintile to the richest,
based on the wealth scores of their household.
The wealth index is assumed to capture
underlying long-term wealth through information
on household assets.
This study recalculated the wealth index to
exclude items that are also included in the
deprivation measures. This new index – labelled
the asset index and mainly based on material
assets – is also shown in Figure 2.11. It can
be seen that households with lower levels of
assets are also much more likely to experience
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