Family Code: Civil Liberties: Physical Integrity: Son Preference: Ownership Rights: The GID database itself is the source for these brief descriptions.
[4] The GID-DB has been statistically applied toward identifying the factors which determine how women's labour-force participation varies across the database countries.
In 2009, similarly the OECD Development Centre introduced the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), which is described in its own article.
Given its exclusive focus on social institutions, the SIGI is a highly specialized measure of gender equality – and should not be confused with the GEM and the GDI.
[4] These data can be accessed via the OECD website StatExtracts (GID-DB),[4] whose sidebar has all of the GID database's components selected and ready to click on, with its 12 Social Institution indicators already on display in the main part of the screen.