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deprivation (42 per cent) than households in the
richest 20 per cent of the population (7 per cent).
Thus, this measure tends to show that material
assets are strongly correlated with the likelihood
of deprivation, although the gradient is not as
marked as it is for the broader wealth measure.
Figure 2.11 shows that nearly 60 per cent of
children in households in the lowest wealth quintile
experience at least one severe deprivation,
compared to only 7 per cent in the richest wealth
quintile. This association is not surprising, as the
wealth index is in part defined by the deprivation
measures. For example, household assets are
measured in part by the type of sanitation facilities
the household has, as is sanitation deprivation,
and also by the type of shelter, as is shelter
deprivation.
Figure 2.11: Children with at least one severe
deprivation by wealth and asset index quintile (%)
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60
50
40
30
20
10
0
58
42
Wealth
29
24 21
17
Poorest Q2 Q3 Q4 Richest
Source: Estimated from 2007 MICS.
Assets
10 14
7 7
Other factors that are strongly correlated with child
deprivation include the education of the head of
the household and the education of the mother,
as shown in Figure 2.12. Children in households
where the household head or the mother had no
education were much more likely to be deprived,
and those where adults had secondary education
were much less likely to be deprived.
Figure 2.12: Children with at least one severe
deprivation by education of head of household
and mother (%)
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
48
27
None Primary Secondary None Primary Secondary
Education of the head of the house Mother’s Education
Source: Estimated from 2007 MICS.
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Multiple deprivations
An important issue is whether children who
are deprived in one dimension more likely to
be deprived in another, and whether these
deprivations reinforce each other. Table 2.6
shows both the proportion of children in Vanuatu
experiencing specific severe or less severe
deprivations, and the experience of different
combinations of multiple deprivations. As
discussed above, the most common severe
deprivation is information, but the second most
common is health deprivation. At the less severe
level of deprivation, the most common problem
relates to health.
Disregarding information deprivation, while 20 per
cent of children in Vanuatu experience one severe
deprivation, only 4 per cent experience two,
and negligible numbers experience four or more
severe deprivations. Less severe deprivations
are naturally more common – nearly one in three
children in Vanuatu experiences a less severe
deprivation; one in four experiences two less
severe deprivations, and one in ten experiences
three, with a very small number experiencing four.
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26
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Table 2.6 also shows that excluding information
deprivation, the most frequent combination of
deprivations (either severe or less severe) is
health and shelter, while the two second most
common combinations are food and water (at the
severe level) and sanitation and food (at the less
severe level).
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