Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals: The ILO Social Security Inquiry
Updated by Jeronim Capaldo , Victoria Giroud-Castiella on 04.08.2016
Since 1940, the ILO collects and analyses quantitative information on social protection schemes around the world. The ILO Social Security Inquiry (SSI) is the main source of global data on social protection, used daily by policy makers, officials of international organizations and researchers.
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Global databases on social security
| The Social Security Inquiry | Database | Manual | ||
| Database of Conditions of Work and Employment Laws (ILO/TRAVAIL): Working Time - Minimum Wages - Maternity Protection |
| Asian Development Bank. Regional tables More | ||
CEPAL / ECLAC (English)
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Eurostat | ESSPROS datatabase under the Living conditions and welfare database More |
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| Helpage international | ||
| International Social Security Association | ||
| International Monetary Fund | Government Finance Statistics (GFS) More | ||
| Ipeadata | Provided and managed by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), Brazil More | ||
| OECD | SOCX database on social expenditure More OECD | Health Data 2010: Statistics and Indicators More OECD | Family database More |
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| Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database (version 5 2010) More Armando Barrientos, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Mathilde Maitrot Brooks World Poverty Institute The University of Manchester |
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| Social transfers evidence More The Social Transfers Evidence Base is an Internet-based database system that enables users to extract bullet-point summaries on programme impact from over 140 studies. |
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Unicef
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| World Bank | ||
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Useful non social security global databases
| ILO Database of labour statistics LABORSTA | ||
| Key Indicators of the Labour Market KILM | ||
| Latin America and Caribbean Labour Information System Quipustat | ||
| Direct access to ILO databases Main page |
| UN Data More | ||
| International Monetary Fund, Data and Statistics More | ||
| World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision Population Database More | ||
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, statistics More | ||
| World Food Programme: Hunger statistics | More | ||
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, statistics More | ||
| UN-Habitat, statistics More |
Household surveys
| Social security data collection through existing national surveys More | ||
| People security surveys datasets and questionnaires Questionnaires and microdata | ||
| ILO Labour force surveys database Database | ||
| Links to international statistical agencies and national statistical office More |
| Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) It is equipped with a powerful STATcompiler: all survey reports are accessible with their questionnaires |
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| ISHN | International Household Survey Network. A web-based Central Survey and Census Catalog, which provides users with access to selected survey and census metadata, documentation and datasets. Access to underlying electronic files is enforced and controlled according to each official depositor's policy. Access to the website of National Statistical Offices is facilitated through IHSN and tabulations and metadata are more and more accessible on national websites. |
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| World Bank - Living Standards Measurement Study More | ||
| Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) Since the mid-1990s, the MICS (developed by UNICEF) has enabled many countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators in the areas of health, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS. This website provides access to survey tools and raw data. |
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| SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe More | ||
| The Health and Retirement Study - A Longitudinal Study of Health, Retirement, and Aging sponsored by the National Institute on Aging More | ||
| The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) - a cross-national data archive More |
Statistics and indicators
Overview of social security indicators by Social protection floor guarantees
| (1) Access to essential health care | main indicators of social health protection | ||
| Data | Health expenditure not financed out of pocket by private households (1995-2011) More Social health protection coverage as a percentage of the population, Global estimates More The multiple dimensions of social health protection: selected indicators 2011 More |
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| (2) Children | ||
| Data | Child and family benefits and financing sources | Map Public social security expenditure on benefits targeting children (or families with children) | More |
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| (3) Working age | ||
| Data | Working age
Public social protection expenditure on benefits targeting persons in working age More Unemployment
Extent of legal coverage as a percentage of economically active population (by country and regional estimates), 201/13 More Maternity
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| (4) Old age | ||
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| (5) Public expenditure indicators (not related to specific social security functions) | ||
| Data | Public social social security expenditure, several years (percentage of GDP) More | |
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Methodological tools
Manuals & guidelines |
Resolution concerning the development of social security statistics. Adopted by the Ninth International Conference of Labour Statisticians (April-May 1957) More Eurostat | ESSPROS Manual - The European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics (2012 edition) OECD | The Social Expenditure database: An Interpretive Guide, SOCX 1980-2003 (OECD 2007) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Asian Development Bank (ADB) | The Revised Social Protection Index: Methodology and Handbook, ADB 2012 Canberra Group Handbook on Household Income Statistics - see :
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Survey questionnaires & tools |
Mapping of social security provisions by NG0s, government agencies and other civil society organizations
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