Summary information

Study title

Family Policy Database

Creator

Flora, Peter (Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Mannheim)

Study number / PID

ZA3474, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.3474 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Family policy in Western Europe based on international comparison. Institutional regulations (order and law) and quantitative key data for the individual countries in the form of aggregate numbers in a database with time series on an annual basis. Topics: I. Dates of time series 1. General family allowances: Amount of family support benefits; age-related additional payments and those for disabled children; allowances for children (family allowance); allowances for families or households: Total number of families or households entitled to support; allowances for children (family allowance); allowances for families or households: Total number of families or households entitled to support; claims structure (total disbursements and type of the restricted claims); financing structure: Total income and type of funding sources. 2. Financial benefits for one-parent-families (single parents). 3. Aids moneys to assure the subsistence level: Amount of the support benefits; income-maintenance payments for special needs; type of special needs; payee (total number persons, children and families or households); charges structure (total disbursements and type of the tied charges); financing structure (all of the takings and type of the funding sources). 4. Family allowances for short-term care or long time care: Height of the supporting benefits; income-maintenance payments for adults entitled to maintenance as well as for children and low income groups; total number of the care receivers as well as the children, adults and old; children in two or one parent households; household structure of the older care receivers; total number of the families authorized to receive payment or households and number of children in the household; charges structure (total disbursements and type of the tied charges); financing structure (all of the takings and type of the funding sources). 5. Supply of childcare facilities: Total number of the childcare facilities; take for the support...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

1946 - 02/2000

Country

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain, France, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Sweden

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Total universe

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Aggregate data from bureau of the census of the examined countries

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2001

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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