Dear subscriber to this mailing list,
In the framework of co-operation between the International Labour
Organisation (ILO)/Financial, Actuarial and Statistical Services and the
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)/ EURODATA Research
Archive, a data infrastructure for comparative social policy and welfare
state research has been built up.
The database ‘The Cost of Social Security 1949-1993’ (COSS 1949-1993) is a
comprehensive machine-readable edition of ILO's international inquiry ‘The
Cost of Social Security’. It contains aggregate data on receipts and
expenditure of social protection schemes and covers the period 1949-1993
for most of the Western and Central European countries.
Countries covered are all current EU-Member States as well as the Czech
Republic, former Czechoslovakia, the former German Democratic Republic,
Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the former Saar Territory, the Slovak
Republic, and Switzerland.
The database encompasses both the original documentation submitted by the
national ministries in charge of social protection or the national
statistical offices and the basic tables already published by the ILO. COSS
1949-1993 contains the complete data-related documentation as well as
information on the social protection institutions classified according to
comparative typologies.
The online version of COSS 1949-1993 can be accessed (free of charge) via
the MZES server, please visit ‘http://www.mzes.uni-
mannheim.de/eurodata/coss19491993’, the project’s homepage.
Both CD-ROM and online version offer three data formats for the financial
data: Excel, SAS and SPSS. The individual files on a yearly basis (in
Excel) have been merged into one file per country across time. These time
series have been made available as SAS- and SPSS- files respectively.
Whereas the country-specific SAS and SPSS datasets are included on the CD-
ROM only, the files comprising the time-series data for all 23 countries
(or 25 countries, including the Saar territory and the former German
Democratic Republic) covered by this database are available for download
from the address mentioned above.
From the web pages of ILO’s Social Protection/Financial, Actuarial and
Statistical Services relating to the Inquiry on the Cost of Social
Security, summary data covering the years 1990-1996 are available for
download
(see: ‘http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socfas/research/intros.h
tm’).
The CD-ROM is on order (free of charge) at EURODATA. Please sent an inquiry
to MZES, EURODATA, Franz Kraus, L7, 1, D – 68131 Mannheim or mail
to ‘[log in to unmask]‘. For all comments, suggestions,
questions or feedback please e-mail to the same address.
Mathias Maucher (database manager)/Franz Kraus (EURODATA managing director)
EURODATA Research Archive
Mannheim Centre of European Social Research (MZES)
Mannheim
Krzysztof Hagemejer
Financial Actuarial and Statistical Services
ILO Social Protection Sector
Geneva
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