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UNICEF has published a report revealing that the Netherlands tops the UN child well-being league for advanced economies. So what is it about the Dutch that made them come out so well, and how reliable are these stats?Dutch children have a
Expatriate families living in the Netherlands can only be pleased with the results of a study produced by The United Nations Children's fund's Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy.
positive self-image
The report Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries shows that the Netherlands scores consistently high over 40 indicators from the years 2000-2003, which were combined into the six dimensions of well-being – material well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviours and risks, and young people's own subjective sense of well-being.
"We used a number of international surveys to create the league table - the two most important ones - both based on interviews with children of 11, 13 and 15 - were the Innocenti OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the World Health Organisation's survey of Health Behaviour in School-age Children (HBSC)," explains Eva Jespersen, the head of the Economic and Social Policy Unit at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
Positive self-image and outlook
The Netherlands ranks at the top of the 'subjective well-being' dimension, which looks at the percentage of young people who rank themselves highly on a life-satisfaction scale.
"For instance, they rate their health as 'good' and like school a lot. Clearly, Dutch children have a positive image about themselves," says Jespersen.
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