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Comparing Child Well-Being in OECD Countries: Concepts and methods

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  • Jonathan Bradshaw
  • Petra Hoelscher
  • Dominic Richardson
  • *UNICEF

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This paper is produced alongside Innocenti Report Card 7 "Child Well-being in Rich Countries". It provides more detail on how the indicators were chosen for the Report Card, and how they were combined into components and then into dimensions. It also provides additional analysis to complement the Report Card.

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  • Jonathan Bradshaw & Petra Hoelscher & Dominic Richardson & *UNICEF, 2007. "Comparing Child Well-Being in OECD Countries: Concepts and methods," Papers inwopa07/38, Innocenti Working Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucf:inwopa:inwopa07/38
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    Keywords

    behaviour; child poverty; child welfare; education; social indicators; statistical analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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