Thanks to the work done by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there has also been progress towards a multidimensional measure of child poverty in the world (Gordon and others, 2003). They concern housing quality and adequacy in aspects such as type of floor, access to potable water and sanitation, availability of electricity and crowding (Feres and Mancero, 2001). To capture shortfalls in education, the approach was similar to the one followed by Alkire and Santos (2010), linking attendance rates for school-age children to educational deficiencies among the adult population.5 Box 1.4 explains the selected satisfaction indicators and thresholds.