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The ILO social security inquiry database

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Building comprehensive social security systems

Progressive adoption of statutory provision for social security functions from 1900 to 2012. .
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Global databases on social security

  The ILO Social security inquiry database: Quantitative information on social security schemes and benefits as well as aggregate national indicators
  The Social transfers impacts matrix | Database
  The ILO Cost of social security 1990-96 Excel files
  Social security programmes and mechanisms database | More
Qualitative information on statutory social security provision.
  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)
  • CEPALSTAT | Statistical databases and documents | More
  • Programas de Transferencias Condicionadas - CCT expenditure data, periodically updated data from all countries in the LAC region | More
  • Social pension database (Pensiones sociales - Base de datos de programas de protección social no contributiva en America Latina y el Caribe) - qualitative and quantitative information) | More
  • Series of country report describing social protection system | More
  • Monitoring the first Millennium Development Goal Database | More  [Quantitative]
 

Eurostat | ESSPROS datatabase under the Living conditions and welfare database | More
Eurostat | CIRCA qualitative information (can it be shared with participants?) | More [Qualitative]

  Helpage international
  • Pension watch | More
  • Global AgeWatch:  a website for evidence and data on population ageing and development | More
  • Global AgeWatch national report cards | More
  International Social Security Association
  • ISSA Statistical Database on Social Security in Developing Countries | More
  • ISSA-members database | More
  • ISSA Country profiles | More
  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
  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
  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.
  Unicef
  • Identifying Fiscal Space: Options for Social and Economic Development for Children and Poor Households in 184 Countries | More
  World Bank
  • Safety Net Spending database | More
  • World Development indicators | More
  • Pension data | More
  • ASPIRE (Atlas of Social Protection: Indicators of Resilience and Equity) | More
  World Health Organization
  • Global Health Observatory | WHO Statistical Information System | More
  • National Health Account | More
 

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
  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.
  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.
  Centre Maurice Halbwachs - ADISP - EQUALSOC network - Eurostat data sets | More
  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 guarantee

(1) Access to essential health care
Data
Health 1 Health expenditure not financed out of pocket by private households | Global trends by level of income (1995-2010) | More
Health 2 Social health protection coverage as a percentage of the population, latest available year | More
Health 3
  • Theoretical coverage gap due to health professional staff deficit by level of income at the national level, 2010 | More
  • Theoretical coverage gap due to health professional staff deficit by level of income at the national level, 2011 | More
Health 4 Overview | The multiple dimensions of social health protection: selected indicators 2011 | More
Main data sources
 
(2) Children
Data
  • Public social security expenditure on benefits targeting children (or families with children) [either in cash or in-kind] | More
  • Family/Child allowances | Existence of statutory social security provisions and sources of financing by HDI, income level groups and region (percentage of countries) 2009/2011 | More
Main data sources
(3) Working age
Data General
  • Public social security expenditure on benefits targeting persons in working age [either in cash or in-kind] | More

Unemployment
  • Statutory coverage | Statutory extent of coverage worldwide as a percentage of the economically active population (EAP), latest available year | More
  • Effective coverage
    • Regional estimates: unemployed who actually receive benefits, latest available year (percentages) | More
    • Country data | effective unemployment coverage - percentage of the unemployed receiving unemployment benefits, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011 and latest available year (percentages) | More

Employment injury
  • Extent of statutory coverage as a percentage of economically active population (by country and regional estimates), 2010/11 | More

Maternity

  • Statutory duration of maternity benefits (weeks), 2013 | More
  • Statuory level of cash maternity benefit, 2013 (per cent of previous earnings) | More
  • Type of maternity benefits, 2013 | More
Main data sources
 
(4) Old age
Data
  • Share of population above the statutory retirement age benefiting from an old-age pension | More
  • Old age to economically active protection ratio (contributors) | More
  • Public social security expenditure on benefits targeting persons in old age [either in cash or in-kind] | More
Methods
  • Decent Work Indicators - Concepts and definitions (ILO 2012) | More
Main data sources
 
(5) Additional indicators
Data
  • Public social security expenditure (percentage of GDP) by region, weighted by population, latest available year (percentage of GDP) | More
 
  • Public social social security expenditure, 2000 and latest available year (percentage of GDP) | More
Main data sources
 

Methodological tools

Manuals & guidelines

  ILO | ILO Social Security Inquiry 2005 Manual
  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 :
  • Handbook on household income statistics (Second edition - 2011)
  • Report and Recommendations (First edition - 2001)
 

Survey questionnaires & tools

  Mapping of social security provisions by NG0s, government agencies and other civil society organizations
  Module of questions on social protection to be included in regular household surveys (including labour force surveys) | More