This indicator measures the proportion of youth aged 20 to 24 years who are not in education, training, or employment in a given year, as a percentage of the total population of the same age cohort.

Source: OECD, Education at a Glance 2008. Paris: Author, 2008.

This indicator measures the personal income of people with disabilities aged 20 to 64, relative to that of people without disabilities.

Source: OECD, Sickness, Disability and Work: Keeping on Track in the Economic Downturn—Background Paper. Paris: Author, 2009.

This indicator measures the poverty rate for people aged 65 and older. Poverty rates are measured as the proportion of individuals aged 65 and older with disposable income less than 50 per cent of the median income of a given country.

Source: OECD, Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries. Paris: Author, 2008.

This indicator measures the proportion of children 17 years and under living in households where disposable income is less than 50 per cent of the median of a given country.

Source: OECD, Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries. Paris: Author, 2008.

Working-age poverty refers to the proportion of individuals aged 18 to 65 years with equivalized disposable income less than 50 per cent of the median income of a given country.

Source: OECD, Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries. Paris: Author, 2008.

Income inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient. The Gini coefficient calculates the extent to which the distribution of income among individuals within a country deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Gini coefficient of 0 represents perfect equality; a Gini coefficient of 100 represents perfect inequality.

Source: OECD, Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries. Paris: Author, 2008.

Class mobility is defined as the extent to which an individual’s income class status is able to change across generations. It is measured by intergenerational earnings elasticity, which calculates the fraction of earnings differences among fathers that is passed on, on average, to their sons (the lower the elasticity, the higher intergenerational mobility).

Source: OECD, Society at a Glance: OECD Social Indicators. Paris: Author, 2006.

The difference between male and female median full-time earnings as a percentage of male median full-time earnings.

Source: OECD, Society at a Glance 2009: OECD Social Indicators. Paris: Author, 2009; OECD, Employment Outlook 2009. Paris: Author, 2009.

Voter turnout is a measure of the proportion of the voting-age population that cast ballots in parliamentary elections.

Source: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. Online data.

This indicator measures the proportion of respondents who indicate either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in parliament, as a percentage of all respondents.

Source: World Values Survey.

This indicator measures the number of deaths due to homicides per 100,000 population in a given year.

Source: OECD, Health Data 2009. Paris: Author, 2009.

This indicator measures the number of recorded burglaries per 100,000 population in a given year.

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems Database.

This indicator measures the number of recorded assaults per 100,000 population in a given year.

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems Database.

Subjective measures of life satisfaction assess the extent to which individuals give a favourable evaluation to the overall quality of their life. Data are gathered through surveys that ask respondents “how satisfied” they are with their lives in general (and in specific domains), with respondents rating satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10 (from lowest to highest levels of satisfaction).

Source: World Values Survey.

Acceptance of diversity is measured using the percentage of people stating in the World Values Survey that they would not like to have people of a different race as neighbours.

Source: World Values Survey.

Social isolation is a measure of the frequency of contacts with others in various settings. This indicator measures the proportion of people who report rarely or never spending time socializing with friends, colleagues, or others in social groups.

Source: World Values Survey.

This indicator measures the number of deaths due to suicide per 100,000 population in a given year.

Source: OECD, Health Data 2009. Paris: Author, 2009.