Society at a Glance 2009
OECD Social Indicators
Society at a Glance offers a concise quantitative overview of social trends and policies across the OECD. This 2009 edition includes a wide range of information on social issues – such as demography and family characteristics, employment and unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction –as well as a guide to help readers understand the structure of OECD social indicators.
In addition to updating some of the indicators from previous editions, Society at a Glance 2009 adds several new and innovative social indicators, including adult height, perceived health status, risky youth behaviour and bullying. For the first time, the report also provides a condensed set of headline social indicators summarising social well-being in OECD countries. In addition, a special chapter examines leisure time across the OECD.
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Life satisfaction
The main indicator of life satisfaction used is from the Gallup World Poll 2006. The Gallup World Poll was based on nationally representative samples of people aged 15 years and older. It uses the same questionnaire in all countries, ensuring maximum comparability, although there are issues about the extent to which the English-language concept of “life satisfaction” is translatable into the different languages used across the OECD. However, the problem is less than for happiness-style questions, which is why life-satisfaction questions are used here
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