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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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