National specific applications (N-MODA) and other further applications can use other decisions regarding the cut-off choice, without endangering the basic consistency of the methodology. The first approach accounts for the severity of deprivation by counting the number of deprivations experienced by each child. The second approach uses scalar indices to combine the multiple aspects of deprivation into one single figure. The last approach builds mainly on the counting approaches towards multidimensional poverty, but expands the analysis by measuring the overlap between deprivations, or between poverty and deprivation. The next two sections elaborate the MODA practice for handling multidimensional poverty/deprivation analyses based on counting, distribution, overlap, and multidimensional indices. Counting measures are individual (or householdj-centred approaches, because the method concentrates foremost on the number of deprivations that are experienced by each individual.