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Reliable social security statistics are an important precondition for good governance and policy making. However, in many countries, the quantitative knowledge base on social security is incomplete and often does not follow international statistical standards. The overarching objective of the ILO Social Security Inquiry is to assist countries in improving their quantitative knowledge base on social security.
The ILO Social Security Inquiry identifies statistical information on social security, including employment-related social security schemes, public health, welfare and anti-poverty programmes and non-public schemes of different types transferring goods, services or cash to poor and vulnerable households. Responding to the lack of social security statistics outside the OECD world, the primary purpose of the Inquiry is not just to collect data but also :
- to promote common statistical standards, which all institutions administering or supervising social security schemes should follow in order to ensure good governance in the field of social policy,
- and to assist countries in building their capacity in this field.
With support from France and the Netherlands, the ILO is :
- collecting social security statistics in - for the time being - more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America,
- providing training and
- building up the ILO Social Security Database, which will make core indicators and evidence on social security accessible to governments, social partners, academics and the wider public.
The ILO Social Security Inquiry manual and the questionnaires are also available in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish on request.
For further information contact by email :
The ILO Social Security Inquiry Team
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Events
- Capacity-building seminar on social security statistics, Conakry/Guinea, 5-6 April 2006
- Capacity-building seminar on social security statistics, Colombo/Sri Lanka, 22 February 2006
- Capacity-building seminar on social security statistics, Tirana/Albania, 7 February 2006
- Capacity-building seminar on social security statistics, Dakar/Senegal, 24-26 January 2006
- Capacity-building seminar on social security statistics, Sanaa/Yemen, 27-28 November 2005
- Capacity-building seminar on social security statistics, Dar-es-Salaam/Tanzania, 12-13 October 2005
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Further information
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