2016).Their composite index is not necessarily multidimensional (Bourguignon and Chakravarty, 2003; also see de Neubourg et al., We refer to the share of children in the national population who lack access to a particular dimension as the "dimensional deprivation rate" or "dimensional poverty rate" while the share of children who are deprived in at least two out of seven dimensions is referred to as the "multidimensional child poverty" rate. Hence, the choice of dimensions is limited by the data.