OECD Family Database www'oecd'orgelssocialfamilydatabase

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OECD Family Databasewww.oecd.org/els/social/fami
ly/database

• Inaugaral ISCI Conference, Chicago, USA
• 26-28 June, 2007
• Annette Panzera
• OECD Social Policy Division

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Presentation outline

• What is the OECD?
• What do we produce?
• Structure of the database
• Some example indicators
• Other relevant OECD products
• The way ahead
• Data gaps, how to fill them?
• Other indicators to develop

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What is the OECD and what does it do?

• The OECD exists to promote policies designed to
  achieve the highest sustainable economic growth
  and employment and a rising standard of living.
• To identify best practice, the OECD develops
  indicators focused on internationally comparable
  datasets which illustrate some vital differences
  in experience, across countries, over time and
  across different groups.
• Work on social policy at the OECD covers public
  pensions, social expenditure, tax/benefits
  systems, child well-being and policies relating
  to families and children
• OECD Family database a new concept to find data
  relating to families and children in one place

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Family database structure

• Family composition
• Labour Market Status of Families
• Public Policies for Families and Children
• Child Outcomes

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1.The Structure of Families

• Average family size
• Fertility rates, childlessness
• Marriage and divorce rates

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Trends in fertility rates (1980)
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Trends in fertility rates (2005)
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More information family structure

• DAddio, A-C, and M. Mira dErcole (2005),
  Trends and determinants of Fertility rates in
  OECD Countries the Role of Policies, OECD
  Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers,
  No. 27, OECD, Paris
• (www.oecd.org/els/workingpapers)

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2. Labour Market Status of Families

• Maternal employment rates by family size and
  number of children
• Gender differences in employment outcomes
• Work/family balance (Usual weekly working hours,
  Family-friendly workplace practices, Time-use)

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Female employment rates usually increase with
higher educational attainment
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Long working hours in some countries impacts upon
family life
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More information Policies to help reconcile work
and family/ Labour market dynamics
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3.Public Policies for Families and Children

• Public spending on families (Child support,
  Spending on families and education)
• Child-related leave
• Childcare (Enrolments, Financing, Quality)

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Enrolment in childcare (for children aged 0 3)
varies widely across countries
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Participation for older kids is particularly high
in France
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Public spending on ECEC varies accordingly.
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.as does public spending on families (2003)
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There are large differences in spending patterns
on children
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Other relevant OECD publications and data
Policies for families

• Other sources
• Social Expenditure Database (SOCX 2007),
  1980-2003 (including net data for 2003)
• Immervoll, H. and D. Barber (2005), Can Parents
  afford to Work? Childcare costs, Tax-benefit
  policies and work incentives , Social,
  Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 31,
  OECD, Paris (www.oecd.org/els/workingpapers).

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4.Child Outcomes

• Child health (Immunisation, birth weight, infant
  mortality)
• Child poverty
• Education/literacy (Attainment by level of
  education, Fields of study (by gender), Literacy
  scores)
• Societal participation

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Child poverty has recently been rising in many
countriesPer cent of children in households
with incomes below 50 of the median
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Educational attainment has risen dramatically in
the last 20 years, especially for women
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The relationship between parental employment and
literacy scoresPISA 2003
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The relationship between pre-school attendance
and literacy scores (PISA 2003)
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More information child outcomes
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Next Steps

• Questionnaire sent out requesting information on
• Living arrangements of children
• Parental employment patterns
• Take-up of child related leave
• OSHC
• Other sources of data eg.
• PISA 2006
• OECD Income Distribution Study (2007)
• OECD Child well-being project
• Conception to 3 years
• Literature survey of the effect of family
  structure on child well-being
• Distribution of public spending by age of child

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