Society at a glance : OECD social indicators.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social indicators--OECD countries--Periodicals.

Social indicators.

Quality of life--OECD countries--Statistics--Periodicals.

Quality of life.

OECD countries--Social conditions--Statistics--Periodicals.

OECD countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 p.)

Place of Publication:

Paris, France : OECD Publications Services, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new annual publication captures in a nutshell information covering a wide range of social topics, including: fertility rates, asylum seekers and refugees, employment, retirement ages, early childhood education and care, replacement rates, relative poverty, the gender wage gap, social expenditure, potential years of life lost, health infrastructure, suicide, group membership and prisoners. A Winner of the <i>2001 Awards for Notable Government Documents conferred by the American Library Association/Library Journal</i>

Contents:

""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Part I. An interpretative guide""; ""1. What are social indicators for?""; ""2. The structure of the indicators""; ""2.1. Choosing indicators in view of data considerations""; ""2.1.1. Disaggregation and measurement""; ""3. The use of the indicators""; ""4. Description of the indicators""; ""4.1. Context indicators""; ""4.2. Self-sufficiency""; ""Table: Self-sufficiency indicators""; ""4.3. Equity""; ""Table: Equity indicators""; ""4.4. Health""; ""Table: Health indicators""; ""4.5. Social cohesion""; ""Table: Social cohesion indicators""

""5. What you can find in this publication""""5.1. What you can find elsewhere""; ""5.2. The future""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part II. OECD Social Indicators""; ""G1. National income""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G1.1. GDP per capita in US, 1999""; ""Chart G1.2. GDP per capita for selected countries, 1970-1999""; ""Further reading""; ""G2. Fertility rates""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G2.1. Evolution of the total fertility rate for selected countries (1970-1998)""

""Chart G2.2. Completed fertility rates for women born in 1930 and 1960 and mean age of women at first childbirth in 1970 and 1995""""Further reading""; ""G3. Old age dependency ratio""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G3.1. Old age dependency and adjusted ratios""; ""Chart G3.2. Old age dependency ratios""; ""Further reading""; ""G4. Foreigners and foreign-born population""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G4.1. Foreign and foreign-born population in OECD countries, 1998""

""Chart G4.2. Change in the proportion of foreign and foreign-born population, 1988-1998 Percentage points change since 1988""""Further reading""; ""G5. Refugees and asylum-seekers""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G5.1. Refugees per 100 000 people, 1999""; ""Chart G5.2. Inflows of asylum-seekers in thousands (1990-1999)""; ""Further reading""; ""G6. Divorce rates""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G6.1. Trends in divorce rate, 1970-1998""

""Chart G6.2. Number of divorces per 100 marriages and mean marriage duration at divorce, 1995""""Further reading""; ""G7. Lone-parent families""; ""Definition and measurement""; ""Evidence and explanations""; ""Chart G7.1. Growth in the proportion of lone-parent households in all households: 1985=100""; ""Table G7.1. Percentage of persons living in households with incomes below 50% of median adjusted disposable income of the entire population""; ""Table G7.2. Composition of households by type of household in 1995""; ""Further reading""; ""A1. Employment""; ""Definition and measurement""

""Evidence and explanations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-08332-8

9786610083329

92-64-19284-0

OCLC:

700684002