Indeed, it captures whether the global economic recession brought a trend reversal in the performance of child indicators with respect to the previous pattern in the countries under review. Then, country indices were averaged out by exposure group for each year.14 We have indexed the graphs to 2008 in order to focus on changes before and after the base year, so the figures show (relative/proportional) changes rather than levels. For negative indicators, such as child poverty, the higher the index, the worse the setback. In Annex 5 we report the trend lines disaggregated by 4 country group categories.