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Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators - 2005 Edition

Society at a Glance indicators spotlight social policy challenges in OECD
countries


http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,2340,en_2649_33729_2671576_1_1_1_1,00.html


   08/03/2005 - Should OECD governments spend more on tackling child
poverty and less on unemployment benefits? Or focus on pension reform and
the need for family-friendly policies to help parents, in particular
mothers, balance a career with bringing up a child? These are among the
social policy challenges spotlighted in the latest edition of the OECD's
Society at a Glance. They will feature on the agenda of a meeting of OECD
Social Affairs Ministers in Paris on March 31-April 1 2005.

 People in OECD countries are living longer and prosperity is rising. But
major social issues remain. Child poverty is on the increase, birth rates
are dropping, while the proportion of senior citizens in the population
will double in many OECD countries in coming years.

 There are no easy answers to such challenges, and Society at a Glance does
not attempt to provide them. Instead, it provides comparative data allowing
OECD countries to benchmark themselves against their peers. Among other
things, it reveals that, while public spending in the areas traditionally
covered by social policies has declined in OECD countries over the last 10
years, private spending has risen, especially in the United States and the
Netherlands. This trend is likely to continue.

 Social Affairs Ministers from OECD countries will discuss many of the
topics spotlighted in Society at a Glance at their conference later this
month on the theme "Extending opportunities: How active social policy can
benefit us all".

 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

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

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

Related Link:

Social Affairs Ministerial, 31 March 51; 1 April 51; Ministers will meet at
OECD headquarters under the chairmanship of Dutch Minister of Social
Affairs and Employment to discuss on 60;Extending opportunities: How active
social policy can benefit us all61;.

·        For further details, see:  www.oecd.org/socialmin2005.

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