Society at a glance: OECD social indicators

Pt. I. interpretative guide

1. What are social indicators for?

2. structure of the indicators

3. use of the indicators

4. Description of the indicators

5. What you can find in this publication

Pt. II. OECD social indicators

G1. National income

G2. Fertility rates

G3. Old age dependency ratio

G4. Foreigners and foreign-born population

G5. Refugees and asylum-seekers

G6. Divorce rates

G7. Lone-parent families

A1. Employment

A2. Unemployment

A3. Jobless youth

A4. Jobless households

A5. Working mothers

A6. Retirement ages

A7. Activation policies

A8. Spending on education

A9. Early childhood education and care

A10. Educational attainment

A11. Literacy

A12. Replacement rates

A13. Tax wedge

B1. Relative poverty

B2. Income inequality

B3. Low paid employment

B4. Gender wage gap

B5. Minimum wages

B6. Public social expenditure

B7. Private social expenditure

B8. Net social expenditure

B9. Benefit recipiency

C1. Life expectancy

C2. Infant mortality

C3. Potential years of life lost

C4. Disability-free life expectancy

C5. Accidents

C6. Older people in institutions

C7. Health care expenditure

C8. Responsibility for financing health care

C9. Health infrastructure

D1. Strikes

D2. Drug use and related deaths

D3. Suicide

D4. Crime

D5. Group membership

D6. Voting

D7. Prisoners.