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Society at a Glance 2005

OECD Social Indicators

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Society at a Glance is OECD's biannual compendium of indicators showing the extent to which OECD countries are becoming more equal, more healthy, and more cohesive.  Covering such topics as self-sufficiency (employment, working mothers, unemployment benefits, educational attainment), equity (poverty, income inequality, social spending), health (life expectancy, mortality, health care expenditure), and cohesion (social isolation, teenage births, drug use, suicides), this book provides a statistical snapshot of social wellbeing in OECD countries, and allows users to analyze interlinked social issues in the context of a more complete representation of a country's social characteristics. 

By linking social status and social response indicators across a broad range of policy areas, Society at a Glance helps readers to identify whether and how the broad thrust of social policies and societal actions are addressing key policy issues.  This book includes StatLinks to spreadsheets of underlying data on the internet.

English Also available in: French, Korean

An Interpretative Guide

The present report aims to give insights relevant to answering two main questions: What progress have OECD countries achieved in terms of their social development? How effective have been the actions of society in furthering social development? The first of these questions requires indicators covering a broad range of social issues.

English Also available in: French

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