PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WEBPAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED. PLEASE SEE THE OECD CHILD WELL-BEING DATA PORTAL FOR OECD INDICATORS ON CHILDREN AND CHILD WELL-BEING

As policy interventions for children in OECD countries increasingly overarch traditional policy fields, demand has grown for better comparative information across a range of children's outcomes. Recently demand has grown for meaures that focus on quality of life issues beyond income poverty, and at different points in the child's lifecycle.

The Child Well-being Module (CWBM) is a new dataset for age-specific child well-being information including data on policies, family and community contexts, and outcomes. The CWBM is part of the OECD Family Database, a portal for internationally comparable information on the situation of families in OECD countries. The CWBM holds quality-checked data on children and their family contexts to help inform cross-national and national-level analysis of policies for children, and the outcomes that they achieve. This module draws from indicators available in the OECD Family Database as well as other available internationally comparable data series and surveys.

The CWBM takes the form of a data matrix in which indicators are organised along one axis by the stages of childhood development: early (0-5 years), middle (6-11 years) and late (12-17 years). The second axis collates the indicators on the basis of:

A. Inputs (spending and structures)

B. Context (families, service provition and community)

C. Outcomes

Indicators:

 

Inputs (spending and structures)         0-5 6-11 12-17 0-17 IN1 Policies  IN1.1 Birth-related benefit policy structures .pdf .xls ✓ ✘ ✘ ✘  IN1.2 Child benefit policy structures .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ ✘ ✓ IN2 Spending  IN2.1 Public spending by age of child .pdf .xls ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

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Context (families, service provision and community)         0-5 6-11 12-17 0-17 CX1 Socio-demographics CX2 Family context  CX2.1 Children in jobless households and with long-term unemployed parents .pdf .xls 0-4 5-9 10-14 0-14 CX3 School and community  CX3.1 Pupils with special educational needs (SEN) .pdf .xls school-aged children  CX3.2 Trends in child population .pdf .xls ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

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Outcomes         0-5 6-11 12-17 0-17 CO1 Health and safety  CO1.1 Infant mortality .pdf .xls <1 ✘ ✘ ✘  CO1.2 Life expectancy at birth .pdf .xls <1 ✘ ✘ ✘  CO1.3 Low birth weight .pdf .xls <1 ✘ ✘ ✘  CO1.4 Vaccination rates .pdf .xls 2 ✘ ✘ ✘  CO1.5 Breastfeeding rates .pdf .xls <1 ✘ ✘ ✘  CO1.6 Prevalence of diabetes and asthma .pdf .xls 0-14 6-7 13-14 ✘  CO1.7 Obesity at age 15 .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15 ✘  CO1.8 Healthy eating at ages 11, 13 and 15 .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13,15 ✘  CO1.9 Physical activity at ages 11, 13 and 15 .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13,15 ✘  CO1.10 Life satisfaction among children .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13,15 ✘  CO1.11 Children’s self-rated health .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13,15 ✘ CO2 Material well-being and economic security  CO2.1 Income poverty .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ ✘ ✓ CO3 Educatonal well-being  CO3.1 Literacy scores at age 10 .pdf .xls ✘ 10 ✘ ✘  CO3.2 Literacy scores at age 15 .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15 ✘  CO3.3 Educational deprivation at age 15 .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15 ✘  CO3.4 Satisfaction with school life .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13,15 ✘ CO4 Behaviour and risks  CO4.1 Teenage suicides .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15-19 ✘  CO4.2 Regular smokers at ages 11, 13 and 15, by gender .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13, 15 ✘  CO4.3 Alcohol and cannabis consumption by young people, by gender .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13, 15 ✘  CO4.4 Bullying at ages 11, 13 and 15, by gender .pdf .xls ✘ 11 13, 15 ✘  CO4.5 Sexual behaviour at age 15, by gender .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15 ✘ CO5 Social, economic and civic participation  CO5.1 Participation in voluntary work .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15-29 ✘  CO5.2 Participation rate of first-time voters .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 18 ✘  CO5.3 Young people not in education or employment .pdf .xls ✘ ✘ 15-19 ✘

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Related databases:

• The OECD Family Database brings together information from different OECD databases and currently April 2011) includes 60 indicators under the four dimensions.
• The UOE database on education statistics is compiled on the basis of national administrative sources, reported by Ministries of Education or National Statistical offices according to international standards, definitions and classifications.
• The OECD Social Expenditure Database includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and (mandatory and voluntary) private social expenditure at programme level. 

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Related pages and projects:

• OECD Child Well-being Portal, a platform for conducting policy-oriented research on children, enhancing child well-being and promoting equal opportunities among children.
• 3rd Child Well-being Expert Consultation (UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission) held in November 2015.
• 2nd Child Well-being Expert Consultation (UNICEF IRC/OECD/The Learning for Well-being Consortium/European Commission) held in November 2011.
• 1st Child Well-being Expert Consultation (UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission) held in May 2009.
• Institutional websites of stakeholders in the field of Child Well-being research.
• Annex to OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 146 (supplementary information on the OECD evaluation of International Surveys of Children).

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Notes

This database has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

† The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

†† Footnote by Turkey:  The information in this document with reference to « Cyprus » relates to the southern part of the Island. There is no single authority representing both Turkish and Greek Cypriot people on the Island. Turkey recognizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Until a lasting and equitable solution is found within the context of United Nations, Turkey shall preserve its position concerning the “Cyprus issue”.

†† Footnote by all the European Union Member States of the OECD and the European Union: The Republic of Cyprus is recognized by all members of the United Nations with the exception of Turkey. The information in this document relates to the area under the effective control of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus.