Table 3

Items included in different deprivation measuring instruments (classified by the authors of this article)

NZiDep25FWID26EPICES27DiPCare-Q
Material deprivation
  • Been on means-tested benefit

  • Getting community help

  • Helped to get food

  • Wearing worn out shoes

  • Buying cheap food

  • Doing without fresh fruit and vegetables

  • Feeling cold

  • Real disposable monthly household income

  • Real total household savings

  • Real total household debts

  • Housing security

  • Urban property ownership

  • Second urban house ownership

  • Rural land ownership

  • Car ownership

  • Monthly meat consumption

  • Winter food stock

  • Number of household members with access to free/discounted medicine

  • Optimum housing size

  • Private room availability

  • Fuel type and quantity

  • Hot water use

  • Insulation of rooms which are heated

  • Individual subscription to utilities

  • Number of furniture items

  • Number of electrical appliances

  • Age and purchase type (ie, first or second hand) of furniture and appliances

  • Owner of own house

  • Having financial difficulties (food, rent, basic needs, …)

  • Difficulties paying household bills

  • Having to ask for money for basic needs

  • Not sought medical treatment because of cost

  • Fears being evicted from home

  • Did not buy clothes

  • Did not buy furniture

  • Did not have enough to eat

  • Difficulties reimbursing loan(s)

Social deprivation
  • Number of children in compulsory or higher education

  • Quality of education being received by the children

  • Meets a social worker sometimes

  • Not living with a partner

  • Not taken part in any sporting activity in the last 12 months

  • Not gone to any shows (movies, theatre, …) over the past 12 months

  • Not gone on holiday over the past 12 months

  • No contact with family other than parents or children over the last 6 months

  • Not having someone to rely on for accommodation

  • Not having someone to rely on for material support

  • Not gone on holiday

  • Not spending an evening with family or friends

  • Not been to cinema, theatre or sporting event(s)

  • Not having access to the internet

  • Not having someone to turn to for material help

Societal security/working conditions
  • Unemployed

  • Household occupational risk grade

  • Household social security ratio

  • Household income to work hour ratio

  • Pension prospects

  • Work-related assets, equipment and supplies

Health deprivation
  • Environmental hygiene and safety

  • Quality of medical service being received by all family members

  • Complementary health insurance

  • Physical disability

  • Mental health issue

  • Addiction

  • DiPCare-Q, deprivation in primary care questionnaire; FWID, factor weighted index of deprivation.