Regarding the identification of the deprived and setting a cut-off point, three options are available: the union, the intersection and the intermediate cut-off approach7 (Atkinson, 2003, Bourguignon and Chakravarty, 2002, 2003, Duclos et al., Among the three methods, the union approach would identify the largest proportion of people as deprived capturing any person with at least one deprivation,8 while the intersection approach would focus only on those who are deprived in all dimensions/indicators selected for the analysis. The use of the third method - the intermediate cut-off approach - prevents the dominance of one indicator or dimension, which can be the case with both the union and intersection approaches.