2. Review of each country's statistical sources in relation to home and work, exclusion, violence, health. 3. Review of governmental and quasi-governmental legal and policy statements that explicitly address men. 4. Review of two (noncontiguous) weeks' national press output to examine explicit and implicit analyses on men and masculinities, and their problematization.In each case, national reports, as well as a summary report, are being written. Information OutreachThe research network also acts as an information resource for other researchers, policy makers, and practitioners for the future. Currently, it is either actively seeking, or planning, to achieve this in a number of ways including the following:1. The Web-based European Database/European Documentation Centre on men. This Database and Documentation Centre became operational toward the end of 2000. They are located at the Web site of the allied and "umbrella" organization, Critical Research on Men in Europe (CROME) (www. cromenet.org). The national reports and the cross-Europe summaries are available at that site. 2. Published articles, conference papers, and edited volumes. 3. Several interface workshops and an international conference, involving network members and key personnel in terms of research/policy-making/ practice, and specifically geared to making key outcomes more widely known. 4. Linking with other researchers in other countries in Europe and beyond.

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This article is one the work of The European Research Network on Men in Europe project “The Social Problem and Societal Problematization of Men and Masculinities” (2000-2003), funded by the European Commission. The Network comprises women and men researchers with range of disciplinary backgrounds from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom. The Network's initial focus is on men's relations to home and work, social exclusion, violences, and health. Some of findings on the Network's second phase of work, namely the review of statistical sources on men's practices in the ten countries, are presented. This is the second of four articles reviewing critical studies on men in the ten countries through different methods and approaches.

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