Box: The Social Monitor 2003 and the TransMONEE Database

The Social Monitor 2003 is the second in the annual Innocenti Social Monitor series. It was carried out by the Monitoring Social Conditions and Public Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (MONEE) project of UNICEF, part of the Innocenti Research Centre (IRC), which since 1992 has provided research on people’s social and economic well-being in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The MONEE project also produces the annually updated TransMONEE database, a menu-driven, downloadable database containing a wealth of statistical information covering the period 1989 to the present on social and economic issues relevant to the welfare of children, young people, and women in 27 European and Central Asian transition countries.

The report, other publications, and the TransMONEE database can be ordered or downloaded from the Innocenti Research Centre web site: http://www.unicef-icdc.org/.