Social Indicators The EU and Social Inclusion [Paperback]

The European social agenda is at a crucial stage. This book describes the Action Plans on Social Inclusion submitted to the European Union by national governments in June 2001 and investigates the indicators that can be used to assess social progress. It deals in a new way with key issues for social policy in Europe: poverty, income inequality, non-monetary deprivation, low educational attainment, unemployment, joblessness, poor health, poor housing and homelessness, functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

Preface
Foreword
1. Setting the Scene
2. Indicators in Principle
3. 3 Social Indicators from a Member State Perspective
4. 4 Portfolio of Indicators as a Whole
5. Financial Poverty
6. Depth of Poverty and Income Inequality
7. Education, Employment and Unemployment
8. Health, Housing, and Wider Dimensions
9. Co-ordination at the European Union Level
Executive Summary and List of Recommendations

Tony Atkinson is Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. Bea Cantillon is Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. Eric Marlier is expert in social statistics and international scientific co-ordinator for Belgian Ministers Vande Lanotte and Vandenbroucke. Brian Nolan is Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.