OECD Social Expenditure Statistics

DOI :
10.1787/socx-data-en
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The OECD Social Expenditure Database (SOCX) has been developed in order to serve a growing need for indicators of social policy. It includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level. SOCX provides a unique tool for monitoring trends in aggregate social expenditure and analysing changes in its composition. The main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labor market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas.
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Authors:
OECD
Publication Date :
19 Mar 2012
Data are: :
Annual
DOI :
10.1787/data-00201-en
Years covered :
2001-2010

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The Benefits and Wages series addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations. The series is a valuable tool used to compare the different benefits made available to those without work and those with different levels of in-work income. It covers 37 countries (29 OECD countries and from 2005 Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovenia and from 2008 Bulgaria and Romania) for the period 2001-2008.The main social policy areas are as follows: taxes and social security contributions due on earnings and benefits, unemployment benefits, social assistance, family benefits, housing benefits, and in-work benefits.These social policies can be further examined by family type, number of children,first earner, second earner and employment status. 2007 edition of Benefits and Wages, statistics, country specific files and tax-benefit models and calculator, which provide detailed descriptions of all cash benefits available to those in and out of work as well as the taxes they were liable to pay are available on Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators.Data are presented from 2001 onwards
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Keywords: benefits, salaries, wages, taxes, gross income, unemployment benefits, net income, social assistance benefits, statistics, housing benefits, family benefits, income tax, employment status, first earner