こどものWell-beingと自治体データ利活用

抄録

Children’s well-being is increasingly being included as a goal in international organizations’ child-related plans. In these plans, children’s wellbeing is framed from a comprehensive perspective, and is actively measured. In recent years, well-being has become a principle or goal of child-related plans in Japan, too. At the same time, the national plan recommends the use of various data held by local governments. On the one hand, local governments are promoting data linkage for early detection of various problems faced by children and push-type support; on the other hand, the promotion is for conducting surveys and research to study effective policies and approaches. In the use of municipal data for children’s wellbeing, it is necessary to pay attention to issues surrounding the integration of multifaceted data and the interpretation of results, as well as the heterogeneity of effects. It is also necessary to pay attention to the relationship between children’s well-being and human rights, coordination among rights holders, and the heterogeneity of treatment effects.