The OECD Family database
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The OECD has developed a Family database with indicators for all OECD countries categorised under 4 broad headings: the structure of families, the labour market position of families, public policies for families and children, and child outcomes.
Measures of family support include financial assistance for families through cash benefits or tax transfers, the provision of family services, including improved access to affordable and quality child care, access to parental leave, and greater flexibility in work arrangements towards better employment opportunities for families with young children, especially lone parents.
Reconciling work and family life involves two key goals for both individuals and society: being able to work, seeking self-fulfilment and earning an income to provide for one’s family; and providing the best care and nurturing for one's own children. These aspirations need not be mutually exclusive. However, a failure to balance work and care commitments has implications for either labour force or family decisions - or both. Parents - or would-be parents - may decide to delay having children, have fewer than they really want, or not have children at all.
Statistics
The structure of families
Families and Children
- Family size and composition (.pdf) (.xls)
- Children in families (.pdf) (.xls)
- Further information on living arrangements of children (.pdf) (.xls)
Fertility indicators
- Fertility rates (.pdf) (.xls)
- Ideal and actual number of children (.pdf) (.xls)
- Mean age of mother at first childbirth (.pdf) (.xls)
- Share of births outside marriage and teenage births (.pdf) (.xls)
- Childlessness (.pdf) (.xls)
Marital and partnership status
- Marriage and divorce rate (.pdf) (.xls)
- Family dissolution and children (.pdf) (.xls)
- Cohabitation rate and prevalence of other forms of partnership (.pdf) (.xls)
- Family violence (.pdf) (.xls)
The labour market position of families
Families, children and employment status
- Children in families by employment status (.pdf) (.xls)
- Maternal employment (.pdf) (.xls)
- Maternal employment by family status (.pdf) (.xls)
- Employment profiles over the life-course (.pdf) (.xls)
- Gender pay gaps for full-time workers and earnings by educational attainment (.pdf) (.xls)
- Gender differences in employment outcomes (.pdf) (.xls)
Workplace hours and time for caring
- Usual weekly working hours among men and women by broad hours groups (.pdf) (.xls)
- The distribution of working hours among couple families and adults in couple families individually, by broad hours groups, presence of children, and age of youngest child (.pdf) (.xls)
- The distribution of working hours among single persons by broad hours groups, presence of children, and age of youngest child (.pdf) (.xls)
- Family-friendly workplace practices (.pdf) (.xls)
- Time used for work, care and daily household chores (.pdf) (.xls)
- Time spent travelling to and from work (.pdf) (.xls)
- Subjective well-being and satisfaction with work-life balance (.pdf) (.xls)
Public policies for families and children
General tax/benefit support for families with children
- Public spending on family benefits (.pdf) (.xls)
- Public spending on education (.pdf) (.xls)
- Family cash benefits (.pdf) (.xls)
- Neutrality of tax/benefits systems (.pdf) (.xls)
- Child support (maintenance) systems (.pdf) (.xls)
- Key characteristics of parental leave systems (.pdf) (.xls)
- Use of childbirth-related leave benefits, by mothers and fathers (.pdf) (.xls)
- Additional leave entitlements of working parents (.pdf) (.xls)
- Parental leave replacement rates (.pdf) (.xls)
Formal care and education for very young children
- Public spending on childcare and early education (.pdf) (.xls)
- Enrolment in childcare and pre-schools (.pdf) (.xls)
- Informal childcare arrangements (.pdf) (.xls)
- Childcare support (.pdf) (.xls)
Typology of childcare benefits and net parental fees by family type and income level
- Typology of childcare and early education services (.pdf)
- Quality of childcare and early education services (.pdf) (.xls)
- Out-of-school-hours care (.pdf) (.xls)
Child outcomes
Child health
- Infant mortality (.pdf) (.xls)
- Life expectancy at birth (.pdf) (.xls)
- Low birth weight (.pdf) (.xls)
- Vaccination rates (.pdf) (.xls)
- Breastfeeding rates (.pdf) (.xls)
- Disease-based indicators: Prevalence of diabetes and asthma among children (.pdf) (.xls)
- Overweight and obesity at age 15, by gender (.pdf) (.xls)
- Regular smokers among 15 year olds, by gender (.pdf) (.xls)
Child poverty
- Trends in the income position of different household types (.pdf) (.xls)
- Child poverty (.pdf) (.xls)
Education/literacy
- Educational attainment by gender and average years spent in formal education (.pdf) (.xls)
- Gender differences in university graduates by fields of study (.pdf) (.xls)
- Literacy scores by gender at age 10 (.pdf) (.xls)
- Literacy scores by gender at age 15 (.pdf) (.xls)
- Young people not in education or employment (.pdf) (.xls)
Societal participation
- Participation in voluntary work and membership of NGOs for young adults, 15-29 (.pdf) (.xls)
- Participation rates of first-time voters (.pdf) (.xls)
- Substance abuse by young people (.pdf) (.xls)
- Teenage suicides (.pdf) (.xls)
See also: The OECD Social Expenditure Database
Publications
The OECD Social Policy Division has produced a series of publications to address the question of reconciling work and family life.
See the following:
For more publications, see the Families and Children: Publications & Documents page.
See also
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