it is anticipated that children in the lowest decile of the income distribution will have higher rates of deprivation than other children and that they live in the types of households that had already been more vulnerable before the crisis and have been hit hardest by the economic downturn these will include family structure single parent family household size migration status or parents employment low work intensity and education further the paper will assess the relative importance of these characteristics in determining relative disadvantage and consider whether these features are common across european countries additionally it compares the rates of child material deprivation for the most disadvantaged with that of the total child population it will also look at childspecific items in europe over four years to analyse the changes during the great recession specific to different dimensions of child material deprivation based on eusilc and eusilc childspecific material deprivation module this will illustrate how deprivation translates into childhood experience