Furthermore, there is a substantial gap between material deprivation rates for the total child population and the children in the poorest decile. It is substantially higher in countries such as Greece, Portugal and Slovakia where the rates are respectively 88%, 73.6% and 76.5% for children in the poorest decile and 39.9%, 29.2% and 25.5 % for the total child population. Children in the bottom end of the income distribution are prone to a lack of a suitable place to study or do homework.