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Social security statistics and activities in this field are crucial for the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of social security policies and programmes, for advocacy purposes, and for enhancing the capacity of an increasing number of member States to generate comprehensive social security data.

What do we need data for?

The main reasons that statistics are needed in the field of social security are:

To measure coverage and evaluate options for extension
- Scope | Who is legally covered for what contingency?
- Extent | How many are currently covered? For what kind of risk?
- Options for extension | Who are those who are not covered? What are their needs and characteristics?
To assess the effectiveness of existing social protection schemes and formulate policies
- Who benefits and how many poor/non-poor, vulnerable groups?
- What are the benefits (amount)?
- Who pays and how much (for benefits, for administration)?

Activities and related tools

The Social Security Department performs three main types of activities in this field:

Building a knowledge base at the global level and promoting a minimum set of data, indicators and analytical results | More
The Department has developed the Social security inquiry and additional associated databases to collect, store and disseminate, on a regular and sustainable basis, comparable statistics on social security programmes (financing, expenditure, benefit levels and coverage).
- Related resources
  - Global statistical databases on social security
  - Social security statistics & indicators
Activities at the country level
Providing technical assistance and training to ILO member States in cooperation with field offices | More
- In countries where statistics are available, activities focus on analysing data to help countries to i) define their social protection policies and ii) improve the effectiveness of existing schemes and extending their scope;
- In many developing countries the priority is to improve the capacity of member States to i)generate and use data at the scheme level and ii) generate comprehensive social security data at the national level
Developing tools and methodologies to collect statistics on social security; to analyse data with the aim of monitoring social security systems and developing policies | More

Main Resources

Social Security Statistical Resources

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ILO databases
Non-ILO databases
Methodological tools
Tables and graphs

ILO databases on social protection

Global statistics on social security

Other social security databases

Legal information
- Social security programmes and mechanisms database | More
- Database of Conditions of Work and Employment Laws (ILO/TRAVAIL): Working Time - Minimum Wages - Maternity Protection
Household survey resources
- People security surveys datasets and questionnaires
- ILO Labour force surveys database
- Links to international statistical agencies and national statistical office | More
Other
- The Social transfers impacts webspace

Other ILO 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

Non-ILO databases on social protection

Global statistics on social security

International Social Security Association
- ISSA Statistical Database on Social Security in Developing Countries | More
- ISSA-members database | More
- Social Security Worldwide (SSW) covers six different databases on social protection | More
Eurostat | ESSPROS datatabase under the Living conditions and welfare database | More
OECD | SOCX database on social expenditure | More
OECD | Tax Database | More
OECD | Health Data 2010: Statistics and Indicators | More
World Health Organization
- WHOSIS | WHO Statistical Information System | More
- National Health Account | More
World Bank | Safety Net Spending database | More
International Monetary Fund | Government Finance Statistics (GFS) | More

Household survey data and questionnaires

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.
- Household survey Catalog
- Catalog of survey questionnaires
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

Other useful "Global" databases

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

Methodological tools

Manuals
Survey questionnaires & tools
- Mapping of social security provisions by NG0s, government agencies and other civil society organizations
  - The case of Zanzibar: Questionnaire & Interviewers' manual
- Social security data collection through existing national surveys | More

Tables & Graphs

Quick access to key social security indicators

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Library

Financing social protection

Quantitative Methods in Social Protection Series
M Cichon et al.; ILO, Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services Branch; ISSA , 2004 More info...
Social Security Inquiry | powerpoint 2009
ILO, Social Security Department, 2009 More info...

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Glossary

administrative data
In the context of social ... More info...

Page updated 2010-09-06 by

Florence Bonnet

bonnet@ilo.org

Quick links
	Statistical resources \| ILO and non ILO databases on social protection
	Statistics & indicators \| Tables and graphs
	The World Social Security Report 2010/11 \| Report and related resources