Long abstract

About Statistics Publications & Documents Information by Country

Following up on the OECD Babies and Bosses reviews on the reconciliation of work and family life in selected Member States, and in view of the strong demand for cross-national indicators on the situation of families and children, the OECD has developed an on-line database on family outcomes and family policies with indicators for all OECD countries.

The database brings together information from different OECD databases (for example, the OECD Social Expenditure database, the OECD Benefits and Wages database, or the OECD Education database, and databases maintained by other (international) organisations.

Development of the Family database is an ongoing process and release or updating of indicators is not linked to any particular point in time. Not all indicators can already be presented on cross-national basis. The first batch of indicators was released by the end of 2006, but work is ongoing on the preparation of new indicators for release throughout 2007. We also intend to update existing indicators on a regular basis.

An indicator under one of these headings in the database typically presents the data on a particular issue as well as relevant definitions and methodology, comparability and data issues, information on sources and, where relevant, include the raw data or descriptive information across countries.