Statistics
The ILO social security inquiry databaseSpecial focus
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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)
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Eurostat | ESSPROS datatabase under the Living conditions and welfare database | More | |
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 | |
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
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World Bank | |
World Health Organization |
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
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