The joint research on UNICEF report card-series (international comparative report on the situation of children in industrialized countries)
"The report has been uploaded in this web page on 25th December 2013"

UNICEF Office of Research has published Report Card series since 2000, focusing on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Each Report Card includes a league table ranking the countries of the OECD.

Aya Abe (Director of Social Security Applied Analysis Research Department, IPSS) started research partnerships with UNICEF Office of Research in 2011 and provided the data for Japan of UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 10.

In the original report(UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 11, April 2013), Japan was not included in the league table of child well-being because data on a number of indicators were missing.

Using national data sources from Japan and matching it carefully with the data used in the original Report Card 11, Aya Abe (Director of Social Security Applied Analysis Research Department, IPSS) and Junko Takezawa (Department of Research Planning and Coordination, IPSS) managed this report to include Japan in the league table and subsequent ranking in each of five dimensions in order to assess Japan's performance in child well-being among developed countries.

UNICEF Office of Research (2013). "Child Well-being in Rich Countries: Comparing Japan", Report Card 11, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence. (December 2013)