In view of the strong demand for cross-national indicators on the situation of families and children, the OECD Family Database was developed to provide cross-national indicators on family outcomes and family policies across the OECD countries, its enhanced engagement partners and EU member states.

The database brings together information from various national and international databases. It currently includes 70 indicators under four main dimensions: (i) structure of families, (ii) labour market position of families, (iii) public policies for families and children and (iv) child outcomes.

Families and Children

SF1.1 Family size and composition

SF1.2 Children in families

SF1.3 Further information on living arrangements of children

SF1.4 Population by age of children and youth dependency ratio

SF1.5 Living conditions of children

Fertility indicators 

SF2.1 Fertility rates

SF2.2 Ideal and actual number of children

SF2.3 Age of mothers at childbirth and age-specific fertility

SF2.4 Share of births outside of marriage

SF2.5 Childlessness 

Marital and partnership status

SF3.1 Marriage and divorce rate

SF3.2 Family dissolution and children

SF3.3 Cohabitation rate and prevalence of other forms of partnership

SF3.4 Intimate partner violence

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Families, children and employment status 

LMF1.1 Children in households by employment status

LMF1.2 Maternal employment

LMF1.3 Maternal employment by partnership status

LMF1.4 Employment profiles over the life-course

LMF1.5 Gender pay gaps for full-time workers and earnings by educational attainment

LMF1.6 Gender differences in employment outcomes

Workplace hours and time for caring

LMF2.1 Usual weekly working hours among men and women by broad hours groups

LMF2.2 Patterns of employment and the distribution of working hours for couples with children

LMF2.3 Patterns of employment and the distribution of working hours for single parents

LMF2.4 Family-friendly workplace practices

LMF2.5 Time used for work, care and daily household chores

LMF2.6 Time spent travelling to and from work 

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General policies for families with children

PF1.1 Public spending on family benefits

PF1.2 Public spending on education

PF1.3 Family cash benefits

PF1.4 Neutrality of tax-benefit systems 

PF1.5 Child support (maintenance) systems

PF1.6 Public spending by age of children

PF1.7 Intergenerational solidarity

PF1.8 Legal age threshold regarding transition from childhood to adulthood

PF1.9 Aspects of child protection 

Child-related leave

PF2.1 Key characteristics of parental leave systems

PF2.2 Use of childbirth-related leave benefits

PF2.3 Additional leave entitlements of working parents 

PF2.4 Parental leave replacement rates

PF2.5 Trends in leave entitlements around childbirth

PF2.6 Same-sex and adoptive parental leave entitlements 

Formal care and education for very young children

PF3.1 Public spending on childcare and early education

PF3.2 Enrolment in childcare and pre-school

PF3.3 Informal childcare arrangements

PF3.4 Childcare support

Typology of childcare systems

PF4.1 Typology of childcare and early education services

PF4.2 Quality of childcare and early education services

PF4.3 Out-of-school-hours care

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(if no weblinks, see the OECD Child Well-Being Data Portal (CWBDP))

Child health

CO1.1 Infant mortality

CO1.2 Life expectancy at birth

CO1.3 Low birth weight

CO1.4 Vaccination rates

CO1.5 Breastfeeding rates

CO1.6 Disease-based indicators: Prevalence of diabetes and asthma among children

CO1.7 Overweight and obesity at ages 11, 13 and 15, by gender

CO1.8 Regular smokers at ages 11, 13 and 15, by gender

CO1.9 Child disability

Child poverty

CO2.1 Income inequality and the income position of different household types

CO2.2 Child poverty 

CO2.3 Material deprivation among households with children

Education/literacy   

CO3.1 Educational attainment by gender and expected years in full-time education 

CO3.2 Gender differences in university graduates by fields of study

CO3.3 Literacy scores by gender at age 10 

CO3.4 Literacy scores by gender at age 15 

CO3.5 Young people not in education or employment 

CO3.6 Proportion of immigrant students and their educational outcomes 

Societal participation

CO4.1 Participation in voluntary work and membership of NGOs for young adults, 15-29

CO4.2 Participation rates of first-time voters

CO4.3 Alcohol and cannabis consumption by young people, by gender

CO4.4 Teenage suicides 

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