Policy document
Measuring what matters for child well-being and policies
OECD ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This Policy Insights brief draws on a larger report about measuring child well-being. It argues that better data on children's lives are needed to design effective policies. It introduces a framework that sets out which aspects of children's lives should be measured and how to monitor them. It also calls for more regular and timely data collection, better ways of linking and combining data, and stronger data systems for reaching vulnerable groups of children.
Key points
- Better data on children's lives are needed to inform effective policies.
- A new framework identifies which aspects of child well-being should be measured and how to best monitor them.
- Data collection should be more regular and timely.
- Techniques for linking and combining data should be improved.
- Data infrastructure needs stronger capacity to collect data on vulnerable groups of children.
Limitations
Only a short abstract is available, so the framework's content, the specific indicators, and the evidence behind the recommendations are not described. No countries are named and no intervention is evaluated.
Abstract
This Policy Insights relates some of the key findings from our report Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies, highlighting the need for better data on children's lives to inform the development of effective policies. It introduces a new framework for child well-being measurement that identifies which aspects of children's lives should be measured and how to best monitor child well-being. It also emphasises the importance of increasing the regularity and timeliness of data collection, improving data linking and combining techniques, and strengthening the capacity of data infrastructure to collect data on vulnerable groups of children.