indeed it captures whether the global economic recession brought a trend reversal in the performance of child indicators with respect to the previous pattern in the countries under review then country indices were averaged out by exposure group for each year we have indexed the graphs to in order to focus on changes before and after the base year so the figures show relativeproportional changes rather than levels for negative indicators such as child poverty the higher the index the worse the setback in annex we report the trend lines disaggregated by country group categories