Society at a Glance 2009
OECD Social Indicators
Society at a Glance offers a concise quantitative overview of social trends and policies across the OECD. This 2009 edition includes a wide range of information on social issues – such as demography and family characteristics, employment and unemployment, poverty and inequality, social and health care expenditure, and work and life satisfaction –as well as a guide to help readers understand the structure of OECD social indicators.
In addition to updating some of the indicators from previous editions, Society at a Glance 2009 adds several new and innovative social indicators, including adult height, perceived health status, risky youth behaviour and bullying. For the first time, the report also provides a condensed set of headline social indicators summarising social well-being in OECD countries. In addition, a special chapter examines leisure time across the OECD.
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Perceived health status
Most OECD countries conduct regular health interview surveys asking variants of the question “How is your health in general? Very good, good, fair, poor, very poor”. Despite the general and subjective nature of this question, indicators of perceived health status have been found to be a good predictor of people’s future health care use and mortality (Miilunpalo et al., 1997).
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