Transcript The progress of the Child Well-being Module 22nd of June, 2010 Network on Early Childhood Education and Care Dominic Richardson, SPD / DELSA.

The progress of the
Child Well-being
Module
22nd of June, 2010
Network on Early Childhood
Education and Care
Dominic Richardson, SPD / DELSA
Child well-being module
• As part of the Family database
• Three comparative sections
– Child policies (spending and structures)
– Contextual indicators (family and community)
– Child well-being outcome indicators
• Country specific sections
– Governance issues, policy changes, yet
incomparable information
– National specific data collections
Plans for the CWBM
• Not a one-off project
• Stage specific information
• Both theory / empirics driven
– Explanatory notes will be provided
– Gaps to be identified
• All data will be quality tested
– Meta data
– Validation testing / systematic bias
– Guidance for appropriate use
The CWBM will use a matrix structure for
comparable information
Plans for the CWBM
• Not a one-off project
• Stage specific information
• Both theory / empirics driven
– Explanatory notes will be provided
– Gaps to be identified
• All data will be quality tested
– Meta data
– Validation testing / systematic bias
– Guidance for appropriate use
What we are doing in SPD
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Child well-being indicators
Family Database
Social expenditure
Doing Better for families
– Longitudinal analysis
• Tax and benefit estimates
– Static and dynamic
• Review of international surveys of children
Longitudinal analysis on the outcomes of
childcare
• UK, USA Australia, Canada, Denmark,
• Childcare
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Type of provider
Age at which child goes to non-parental care
Number of hours (intensity)
Controlling for background factors, health status and
breastfeeding
– Parenting behaviours (reading, etc.)
• Cognitive scores (vocab.), behavioural (attention), and
conduct at age 5
• Linking this to mothers employment
• Will feed into future work on data collection
Incorporating the ECEC
network information
• Mainly in early childhood inputs and
contexts
– Information on staffing levels / provision by
child or family attributes
• In country specific sections
– ECEC Governance information
– Recent ECEC policy developments
– Unique national data collections and
evaluations
Outputs from the CWBM…
• ST: Online reporting by indicator
• Feed into upcoming work (DBFF)
– Make better use of the qualitative info and
country specific info
• MT: Working papers or short reports
– By child age / by country / by topic
• LT: Provide a foundation for regular
reporting on CWB in OECD countries
Progress to date I
• Final round of comments were received
from the USA and Australia in March
• Incorporated changes
– Identifying the correct data
– Collaborative approach to conceptualisation
• Addressed outstanding concerns
– Inclusion of all countries
– Types of involvement / collection
• The final proposal has been submitted to
the EDG
Progress to date II
• The UK has already committed three years of
funding to the project
• Data is collected for DBFF and other projects on
health, education and income
– Averages (efficiency)
– Inequalities (equity)
• First online data as of fourth quarter of 2010
• New data (national and international) will be
reviewed and added as of fourth quarter of 2010
• Backdating of available series in early 2011
Some useful links
www.oecd.org/els/social/childwellbeing
www.oecd.org/els/social/family/database
[email protected]
+33 145 24 9456