Databases - Health, Education and Labor

• OECD Education Statistics
• OECD Social Expenditure Database
• OECD Health Data
• Quarterly Labour Force Statistics - Discontinued

OECD Education Statistics - online database

TOECD Education Statistics provides internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems. It is from this data that the annual indicators found in Education at a Glance are derived. OECD Member countries co-operate to gather the information, to develop and apply common definitions and criteria for the quality control of the data, to verify the data and to provide the information necessary to interpret the submitted data.

The database covers: enrolments, graduates and new entrants by sex, age and level of education, teaching staff and expenditure, foreign students enroled, and population.  Data are generally available from the late 1990s onwards and coverage is provided for all OECD countries and well as a number of non-OECD countries participating in the programme.

OECD Social Expenditure Database

The OECD Social Expenditure Database has been developed to provide a tool for monitoring trends in social expenditure at the aggregate level and to analyze changes in the composition of social expenditures in OECD countries.

OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) includes historical series from 1980 onwards, depending on availability, on public and mandatory private sector social expenditure at programme level classified under the following 13 social policy areas:

1. Old age cash benefits
2. Disability cash benefits
3. Occupational injury and disease
4. Sickness benefits
5. Services for the elderly and disabled people
6. Survivors
7. Family cash benefits
8. Family services
9. Active labour market programmes
10. Unemployment
11. Public expenditure on health
12. Housing
13. Other contingencies

SOCX is a multi-dimensional database, presenting social expenditure data in the following units:

• at current prices in national currency
• at constant 1995 prices in national currency
• at current prices and purchasing power parities in US-dollars
• at constant 1995 prices and purchasing power parities in US-dollars
• at current prices in national euro currency
• as a percentage of GDP (according to Systems of National Accounts 93)
• as a percentage of public expenditure

Social expenditure data in the above listed categories and units is shown in six chapters:

• Public Expenditure
• Mandatory Private Expenditure
• Voluntary Private Expenditure
• Obligatory and Mandatory Private Expenditure
• Public and Mandatory Private Expenditure
• Public, Mandatory and Voluntary Private Expenditure

Included are electronic versions of a 42-page manual, presenting an interpretative guide to the OECD Social Expenditure Database , and 185-page document containing detailed Notes and Sources on individual country data.

Also, visit the OECD Social Expenditure web site for more information.

OECD Health Data Online Database

OECD Health Data is a unique, interactive database covering over 1 200 indicators for the OECD countries and including sophisticated query modules. It includes data on a wide range of key aspects of the health care systems in the 30 OECD member countries which are presented in a demographic, economic and social context.

The latest version, is a fast, user-friendly package that enables PC users to query OECD data files and analyse them using tables, charts and maps. It also offers the option of exporting data to other software packages. Users can select the variables, countries and years they want. The data, comprising some 1 200 different series, span the period 1960-2005, with selected long-time series from 1960 onwards. Most data cover the 1980s and 1990s, many of which continue up to 2004 or 2005, with selected OECD estimates for 2006.

OECD Health Data is an essential tool for policy advisors and health researchers in the public and private sectors to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health systems.

OECD Health Data offers a range of enhanced features:

• Symbols included in data cells, to identify breaks in series or flag specific information
• Enhanced “Get more data” section
• Inter-page links to access country-specific information with a click
• OECD Health Data 2007 on CD-ROM runs on Mac with the application “Virtual PC for Mac”
• Software and list of variables available in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian.
  

Main Variables Headings are:

Part 1 - Health Status
Part 2 - Health Care Resources
Part 3 - Health Care Utilisation
Part 4 - Expenditure on Health
Part 5 - Health Care Financing
Part 6 - Social Protection
Part 7 - Pharmaceutical Market
Part 8 - Non-Medical Determinants of Health
Part 9 - Demographic References
Part 10 - Economic References

Data are provided for many sub-categories to those listed above.  Data are available in both US dollars and national currency values and for many variables, percentage of GDP and per capita values can be calculated. 

For more in-depth information see the List of covered variables (PDF 227kb) and the online edition of the User Guide (PDF 1.4MB) supporting the OECD Health Data including Definitions, Sources and Methods.

Visit the OECD Health web site for more information.

Quarterly Labour Force Statistics

Note: This periodical has ceased publication end of 2004. The last issue published is Volume 2004, Issue 4.

The electronic database follows the format and content of the printed version, which is automatically included to diskette/CD-ROM subscribers. The data consist of time series showing the evolution of labour force indicators for 20 OECD Member countries. The periodicities of the data are monthly, quarterly, and annual, subject to availability. Data is presented from 1965 onwards where available.

• Variables on Labour Force Indicators by country provide data on:
  
  • Unemployment (survey based)
  • Total Labour Force
  • Civilian Labour Force
  • Civilian Employment (survey based)
  • Civilian Employment by sector, level
  • Civilian Employment by sector, percent
  • Employees for the following 20 OECD Countries: Canada, United States, Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.
    
    
• Standardised Unemployment Rates are supplied for the following 21 OECD Member countries:
  Canada, United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. Area totals are shown for OECD-total, EU15, and Major Seven.
  
  
• Annual Population Figures (census based) are provided for all 29 OECD Member countries.

Also, visit the OECD Labour Statistics web site for more information.

Note: This periodical has ceased publication end of 2004. The last issue published is Volume 2004, Issue 4.