Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators - 2006 Edition

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Social problems rarely have a single cause. For example, tackling social exclusion involves simultaneously addressing barriers to labour market integration, health problems and low education. Coping with an ageing society requires new approaches to health care and employment, as well as to pensions.

Social indicators provide the broad perspective needed for any international comparison and assessment of social trends, outcomes and policies. By linking status and response indicators across a broad range of policy areas, social indicators help readers to identify whether and how the broad thrust of policies and societal actions are addressing the key social issues that confront OECD societies.

Social indicators provide a concise overview of social trends and policies while paying due attention to the different national conditions in which such policies are being pursued.

The social indicators in Society at a Glance may be represented along a two-dimensional classification: 1) social policy, i.e. self-sufficiency, equity and social cohesion; 2) the nature of the indicators, i.e. social context, social status and societal responses.

This edition includes a wide range of information on social issues including demography, family characteristics, employment, working mothers, out-of-work replacement rates, poverty persistence, social expenditure, health care expenditure, subjective well-being and suicides.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Indicators Framework and Assessment
Chapter 1. An Interpretive Guide
Chapter 2. Measuring Well-Being: What Role for Social Indicators?
Part II. OECD Social Indicators
General Context Indicators: National Income per Capita, Age-Dependency Rates, Fertility Rates, Migration, Marriage and Divorce
Self-Sufficiency Indicators: Employment, Unemployment, Mothers in Paid Employment, Childcare Costs, Tax Wedge on Labour, Out-of-Work Benefits, Students' Performance
Equity Indicators: Material Deprivation, Earnings Inequality, Gender Wage Gaps, Intergenerational Mobility, Public Social Spending, Poverty Persistence, Housing Costs, Old-Age Pension Replacement Rates
Health Indicators: Life Expectancy, Health Care Expenditure, Low Birth Weight, Sick-Related Absences from Work, Long-Term Care Recipients, Health Inequalities
Social Cohesion Indicators: Voting, Prisoners, Suicides, Work Accidents, Trust in Political Institutions, Life Satisfaction.

Corrigenda can be downloaded for the following pages:
   - p. 42 at end of second paragraph: replace "in Australia, Luxembourg and Portugal" by "in Italy, Japan and Spain".
   - p. 69: Share of households lacking indoor toilet in Luxembourg in Table EQ1.1 should be ".." not available.
   - p. 105 replace Australian figures in Table CO2.2.

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Society at a Glance 2005 - Raw data underlying each indicator:

General context indicators:
GE1. National income per capita
GE2. Age-dependency ratio
GE3. Fertility rates
GE4. Foreigners and foreign-born population
GE5. Marriage and divorce

Self-sufficiency indicators: SS1. Employment SS2. Unemployment SS3. Jobless households SS4. Working mothers SS5. Out-of-work benefits SS6. Benefits of last resort SS7. Educational attainment SS8. Age at retirement SS9. Youth inactivity --Internet only-- SS-I-1-Students with impairments	Equity indicators: EQ1. Poverty EQ2. Income inequality EQ3. Child poverty EQ4. Income of older people EQ5. Public social spending EQ6. Private social spending EQ7. Total social spending EQ8. Old-age pension replacement rate EQ9. Pension promise
Health indicators: HE1. Life expectancy HE2. Health-adjusted life expectancy HE3. Infant mortality HE4. Total health care expenditure HE5. Long-term care	Social cohesion indicators: CO1. Subjective well-being CO2. Social isolation CO3. Group membership CO4. Teenage births CO5. Drug use and related deaths CO6. Suicides