Society at a glance 2014
Subtitle: OECD social indicators
Series: Society at a glance
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9789264206656; 9789264206694; 9789264200722; 9789264223332; 9781785397684; 9789264206663
Subjects: Social indicators; Quality of life; Statistics
Description: This is the seventh edition of Society at a Glance, the OECD overview of social indicators. It provides quantitative evidence on social wellbeing and trends around the world, from the 34 OECD member countries as well as Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa, Argentina and Saudi Arabia, as available. Measures are included for household income, fertility, migration, family, old age support, employment, youth unemployment, education spending, expected years in retirement, income inequality, poverty, welfare receipt, social spending, life expectancy, health status, suicide, health expenditure, coverage of health care, life satisfaction, tolerance, confidence in institutions, safety and crime, and altruism. The impact of the global financial crisis is also discussed. Findings are also available as an online database.
Notes: "This report was prepared by Pauline Fron, Herwig Immervoll (Chapter 1), Maxime Ladaique and Hilde Olsen."--Page 3.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

In English and Korean.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: 1. The crisis and its aftermath: A 'stress test' for societies and for social policies; title: 2. Interpreting OECD social indicators; title: 3. General context indicators; title: 4. Self-sufficiency indicators; title: 5. Equity indicators; title: 6. Health indicators; title: 7. Social cohesion indicators.