among the eight remaining countries belgium bulgaria croatia greece italy portugal slovakia and switzerland there have not been any significant changes in the multidimensional child poverty rate between and except marginally in bulgaria and portugal figure assuming that there were no real changes in multidimensional child poverty between and in these countries this suggests that the multidimensional poverty measure is robust to changes in the underlying sample of children however another two countries saw significant increases in the multidimensional child poverty rate iceland and italy so did the united kingdom but the trend may be driven by the break in the series due to changes in data collection methods