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Resources on child well-being
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OECD Books and Reports
Assisting Care Leavers: Time for Action
(Jun 2022)
Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in Ireland: Review on Sector Quality
(Dec 2021)
Schooling During a Pandemic: The Experience and Outcomes of Schoolchildren During the First Round of COVID-19 Lockdowns
(Oct 2021)
Beyond Academic Learning: First Results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills
(Sep 2021)
Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies
(Jul 2021)
Starting Strong VI: Supporting Meaningful Interactions in Early Childhood Education and Care
(June 2021)
Adapting Curriculum to Bridge Equity Gaps: Towards an Inclusive Curriculum
(May 2021)
21st-Century Readers: Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World
(May 2021)
The State of School Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic
(Apr 2021)
Curriculum Overload: A Way Forward
(Nov 2020)
What Students Learn Matters: Towards a 21st Century Curriculum
(Nov 2020)
Education in the Digital Age: Healthy and Happy Children
(Oct 2020)
PISA 2018 Results (Volume VI): Are Students ready to Thrive in an Interconnected World?
(Oct 2020)
PISA 2018 Results (Volume V): Effective Policies, Successful Schools
(Sep 2020)
Quality Early Childhood Education and Care for Children Under Age 3: Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018
(Jul 2020)
PISA 2018 Results (Volume IV): Are Students Smart about Money?
(May 2020)
Early Learning and Child Well-being. A study of five-year-olds in England, Estonia and the United States
(Mar 2020)
PISA 2018 Results (Volume I): What Students Know and Can Do
(Dec 2019)
PISA 2018 Results (Volume II): Where All Students Can Succeed
(Dec 2019)
PISA 2018 Results (Volume III): What School Life Means for Students’ Lives
(Dec 2019)
Changing the Odds for Vulnerable Children: Building Opportunities and Resilience
(
Spanish translation
) (Nov 2019)
Ending Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains
(Nov 2019)
Making Physical Education Dynamic and Inclusive for 2030
(Oct 2019)
Providing Quality Early Childhood Education and Care: Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018
(Oct 2019)
Educating 21st Century Children: Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Age
(Oct 2019)
Good Practice for Good Jobs in Early Childhood Education and Care
(Jun 2019)
The Road to Integration: Education and Migration
(Jun 2019)
Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education
(Apr 2019)
Helping our Youngest to Learn and Grow: Policies for Early Learning
(Mar 2019)
Engaging Young Children : Lessons from Research About Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
(Mar 2018)
Catching Up? Intergenerational Mobility and Children of Immigrants
(Dec 2017)
Educational Opportunity for All: Overcoming Inequality throughout the Life Course
(Dec 2017)
Starting Strong V: Transitions from Early Childhood Education and Care to Primary Education
(Jun 2017)
Starting Strong 2017: Key OECD Indicators on Early Childhood Education and Care
(Jun 2017)
How is Life for Children?
, in
How's Life? 2015: Measuring Well-being
(Oct 2015)
Starting Strong IV: Monitoring Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
(Oct 2015)
Skills for Social Progress: The Power of Social and Emotional Skills
(Mar 2015)
Doing Better for Children
(Sep 2009)
OECD Briefs and Papers
OECD Briefs and Policy Briefs
The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage
(
Fr
) (Nov 2022)
Improving Early Equity: From Evidence to Action
(Oct 2022)
Starting unequal: How’s life for disadvantaged children?
(
Fr
) (Jul 2022)
Play, create and learn: What matters most for five-year-olds
(Nov 2021)
Career readiness in the pandemic: A summary of project findings
(Nov 2021)
Experiencing the workplace: The importance and benefits for teenagers
(Nov 2021)
Career readiness in the pandemic: Insights from new international research for secondary schools
(Nov 2021)
Career conversations: Why it is important for students to talk about their futures in work with teachers, family and friends
(Oct 2021)
Using Digital Technologies for Early Education during COVID-19
(Oct 2021)
Indicators of teenage career readiness: Guidance for policy makers
(Oct 2021)
Getting a job: How schools can help students in the competition for employment after education
(Aug 2021)
Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies
(
Français
) (Jul 2021)
Caring, sharing, daring: Social-emotional development at age five
(Jun 2021)
The future at five: Gendered Aspirations of five-year-olds
(Mar 2021)
Securing the recovery, ambition, and resilience for the well-being of children in the post-COVID-19 decade
(Jan 2021)
What is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants and their children?
(Oct 2020)
Combatting COVID-19's effect on children
(Aug 2020)
Is Childcare Affordable?
(Jun 2020)
Growing Up Online Addressing the Needs of Children in the Digital Environment
(Feb 2020)
Treating All Children Equally? Why Policies Should Adapt to Evolving Family Realities
(Nov 2019)
How Can We Help Stop Child Labour?
(Feb 2019)
Early Learning Matters
(Nov 2018)
Child Well-Being and the Sustainable Development Goals
(Oct 2018)
Children and Young People’s Mental Health in the Digital Age: Shaping the Future
(Oct 2018)
Poor Children in Rich Countries: Why We Need Policy Action
(Oct 2018)
OECD Policy Papers and Working Papers
A snapshot of equity and inclusion in OECD education systems: Findings from the Strength through Diversity Policy Survey
(Dec 2022)
The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage in European OECD countries
(Nov 2022)
Starting unequal: How’s life for disadvantaged children?
(Jul 2022)
Cyberbullying: An overview of research and policy in OECD countries
(Mar 2022)
The social and economic rationale of inclusive education: An overview of the outcomes in education for diverse groups of students
(Jan 2022)
Indicators of teenage career readiness: An analysis of longitudinal data from eight countries
(Oct 2021)
A strong start for every Indigenous child
(Jul 2021)
Looking beyond COVID-19: Strengthening family support services across the OECD
(Mar 2021)
Children in the Digital Environment: Revised Typology of Risks
(Jan 2021)
Delivering Evidence Based Services for All Vulnerable Families
(Jul 2020)
Protecting children online: An overview of recent developments in legal frameworks and policies
(Jun 2020)
Why parenting matters for children in the 21st century: An evidence-based framework for understanding parenting and its impact on child development
(Jun 2020)
Treating all children equally? Why policies should adapt to evolving family realities
(Mar 2020)
Child Labour: Causes, Consequences and Policies to Tackle It
(Nov 2019)
Impacts of technology use on children: Exploring literature on the brain, cognition and well-being
(Feb 2019)
Child Well-Being and the Sustainable Development Goals
(Oct 2018)
New Technologies and 21st Century Children: Recent Trends and Outcomes
(Sep 2018)
The Power and Promise of Early Learning
(Nov 2018)
Tackling Child Poverty in Canada
(Nov 2018)
Tackling Child Poverty in Korea
(Nov 2018)
Child Poverty in the OECD: Trends, Determinants and Policies to Tackle it
(Oct 2018)
Physical Health and Well-being in Children and Youth: Review of the Literature
(Feb 2018)
Emotional Well-being of Children and Adolescents: Recent Trends and Relevant Factors
(Feb 2018)
An Evaluation of International Surveys of Children
(Aug 2014)
Related OECD paper series
OECD Education Working Papers
OECD Education Policy Perspectives
OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
More Resources from the OECD
OECD Legal Instruments
OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment
(May 2021)
OECD Guides and Infographics
Pressure and Perfectionism in 21st Century Children
Education in the Digital Age: Healthy Children, Healthy Futures
Education in the Digital Age: The Importance of Play
Children’s Relationships in the Digital Age
21st Century Children: Emotional Well-Being
OECD Surveys and Data Collections
OECD International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study
(IELS)
OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA)
OECD Starting Strong Teaching and Learning International Survey
(TALIS Starting Strong)
OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills
(SSES)
OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey
(TALIS)
OECD Data and Indicators
OECD Child Well-being Data Portal
OECD Education at a Glance
OECD Education Database
OECD Family Database
OECD Income and Wealth Distribution Databases
OECD PISA Database
OECD Social Expenditure Database
OECD Seminars and Webinars
Ask an expert: What pressures do children feel in the 21st century and what can we do about it?
(22 October 2021)
Getting a job: How schools can help students develop recruitment skills
(29 September 2021)
Ask an expert: How can we encourage an active and ethical digital generation?
(1 September 2021)
Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies
(1 July 2021)
How can we support meaningful interactions in early childhood education and care?
(28 June 2021)
Thinking about the future: How teenage attitudes towards careers are connected to employment in later life
(18 June 2021)
Ask an expert: How can we help children develop their digital skills?
(16 June 2021)
Sharing, caring, daring: Social-emotional development at age five
(14 June 2021)
Education: One Year into the COVID Pandemic
(7 June 2021)
Ask an expert: Why play is so important for child learning and development
(18 May 2021)
Ask an expert: Understanding digital risks for 21st century children
(31 March 2021)
Ask an expert: Understanding childhood in the 21st Century
(12 November 2020)
See
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for more on our OECD Education Webinar series.
OECD Events and Workshops
High-level launch of the OECD Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment (Nov 2021)
OECD Conference: Disrupted futures: International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives
(Oct 2021)
OECD Policy Workshop on Enhancing Child Well-being: From Ends to Means?
(Jan 2019)
UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission, 3rd Child Well-being Expert Consultation
(Nov 2015)
UNICEF IRC/OECD/The Learning for Well-being Consortium/European Commission, 2nd Child Well-being Expert Consultation
(Nov 2011)
UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission, 1st Child Well-being Expert Consultation
(May 2009)
Organisations and Initiatives from the Child Well‑being Community
African Child Policy Forum
Alliance for Childhood European Network Group
Bernard Van Leer Foundation
Canadian Early Development Instrument
(EDI)
Canadian British Columbia Early Development Instrument
(EDI)
Child Trends
Eurochild
European Platform for Investing in Children
(EPIC)
Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
Inspiring Children's Futures
Justice for Children
Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation
King Baudouin Foundation
Learning for Well-being Foundation
UNECE Task Force on Statistics on Children, Adolescents, and Youth
UNICEF
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia
Young Lives
Resources from our Member Countries and Key Partners
Australia:
Australian Early Development Census
(AEDC)
Australia:
Children's Headline Indicators
Australia:
Australia’s Children
Canada:
School Closures and Covid-19: Interactive Tool
Costa Rica/Unicef:
Child-Related SDG Progress Assessment for Costa Rica
Finland:
National Child Strategy
France:
Insee Première n° 1841: En 2020, 12 % des enfants dont les parents sont séparés vivent en résidence alternée (In 2020, 12% of children whose parents were separated lived in joint residence)
Ireland:
State of the Nation’s Children
Ireland:
Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: The National Policy Framework for Children and Young People
Latvia:
Children in Latvia
New Zealand:
Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy
United Kingdom:
Children's Well-being Measures
United States:
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being
International Child Surveys
21st Century Skills Mapping Study
(21CS MAP)
Children’s Worlds: International Survey of Children’s Well-Being
(ISCWeb)
European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs
(ESPAD)
Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children World Health Organization Collaborative Cross-National Survey
(HBSC)
International Civic and Citizenship Education Study
(ICCS)
International Computer and Information Literacy Study
(ICLS)
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
(PIRLS)
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS)